Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Use this quote
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Use this quote
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? Use this quote
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. Use this quote
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. Use this quote
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Use this quote
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Use this quote
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. Use this quote
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. Use this quote
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. Use this quote
