There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Intelligence Quotes

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...

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...

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.

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 -...

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details...

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details...

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...

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...

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo,...

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo,...

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.

Language is wine upon the lips

Language is wine upon the lips

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the...

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the...

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,...

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is...

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is...

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...

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...

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...