Top 86 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

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 methods.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

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 gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.