Virginia Woolf Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.”

“One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.”

“Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.”

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

“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?”

“Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.”

“You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.”

“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 breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.”

“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 she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”

“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.”