We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

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...

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.

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...

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the...

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the...

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of...

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of...

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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 poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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,...

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...

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.

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

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