Quotes by Virginia Woolf

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

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 omnibuses.

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?

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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.