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 not out. Virginia Woolf curtaindrawessay Change image and share on social
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write. Virginia Woolf moodqueerthink Change image and share on social
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. Virginia Woolf assumebookcritic Change image and share on social
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. Virginia Woolf bodyessencemind Change image and share on social
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. Virginia Woolf decomposeeternitynauseate Change image and share on social
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. Virginia Woolf agecleanlinessendeavour Change image and share on social
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? Virginia Woolf bodycombinationharley Change image and share on social
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. Virginia Woolf bookfriendheart Change image and share on social
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Virginia Woolf anguishasunderbeauty Change image and share on social
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. Virginia Woolf anonymoushistorywoman Change image and share on social
