Famous Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Below are famous quotes by Virginia Woolf - English novelist (1882 - 1941).

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

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