One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Virginia Woolf Quotes

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether,...

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether,...

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...

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

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

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine...

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine...

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story...

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story...

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:...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming,...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming,...

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...

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled...

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled...

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

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

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one...

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one...

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over...

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over...

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,...

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of...

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of...

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness....

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness....

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice...

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice...

Conventionality is not morality.

Conventionality is not morality.