Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf, known professionally as Virginia Woolf, was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 January 1882
CityLondon, England
people
I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.
stronger position
Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.
ordinary depends extraordinary
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
heart tolerance mind
The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often, alas, acts the cannibal among the other faculties so that often, where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
clothes views support
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.
literature statements
That complete statement which is literature.
beautiful half paradox
If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.
character december changed
On or about December 1910, human character changed.
book hands together
To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.
letters puppy bones
I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.
soup ducklings novelists
It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance...
home house lunatic-asylums
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
flower
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
blood bricks goddess
Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.