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
dream memories exquisite
He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
funny pimples insult
[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
drawing mind receiving
The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
way want married
I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
life people triggers
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
greek useless language
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
years mind body
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
self perception consciousness
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
education laughter inspiration
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
running jugs subtle
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.
patience waiting wells
Well, we must wait for the future to show.
travel women speech
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
passion reflection brain
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
expression giving able
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.