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

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Virginia Woolf Quotes

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I...

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I...

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and...

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and...

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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...

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it...

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it...

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations,...

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations,...

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

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

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...

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind...

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind...

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people...

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people...

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -...

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -...

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.