{"id":84105,"date":"2017-03-01T15:40:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2018-05-03T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T16:01:17","slug":"virginia-woolf-quotations-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/virginia-woolf-quotations-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Woolf Quotations (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Virginia<\/a>
Virginia Woolf aphorisms, ideas, quotations and quotes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"<\/a>I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a<\/span>
\n gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new<\/span>
\n methods.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the<\/span>
\n attachment is scarcely perceptible.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how<\/span>
\n she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background.<\/span>
\n Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of<\/span>
\n the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the<\/span>
\n creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>
\n thirteen thousand a year?<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‘our’ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are<\/span>
\n fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous,<\/span>
\n or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of<\/span>
\n omnibuses.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in<\/span>
\n not out.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him,<\/span>
\n are we idly occupied?<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or<\/span>
\n breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the<\/span>
\n feelings of women in a drawing-room.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.<\/span>
\n Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Virginia Woolf Quotations\u00a0 (Part 1)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes by authors<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes by arguments<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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