Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Famous Quotes, Friendship Quotes

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by...

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by...

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

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

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions...

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....

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

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

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

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

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

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...

Language is wine upon the lips.

Language is wine upon the lips.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

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:...

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...

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship...

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship...

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.

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.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.