Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Virginia Woolf Quotes

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood...

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood...

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be...

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be...

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret...

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there...

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there...

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the...

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the...

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact...

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact...

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion...

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion...

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to...

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune...

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing...

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy...

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us....

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us....

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...