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Virginia Woolf Quotes

Virginia Woolf

British novelist and essayist ['To the lighthouse', 'Mrs Dalloway', 'Orlando']

Nationality: British
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Type: Writer
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Birth: 1882-1941
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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong
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Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.
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Men argue, nature acts.
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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
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Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
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In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
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The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
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Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors o
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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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My life is a battle.
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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
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Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
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The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.
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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
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The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
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Work is often the father of pleasure.
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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
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My prayer to God is a very short one: ''O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous!'' God has granted it.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
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The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
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Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
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It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
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We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.
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A witty saying proves nothing.
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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
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Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
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In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
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