Quotes by Virginia Woolf

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

#Virginia Woolf

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

#Gifts, #Humor

Language is wine upon the lips

#Language

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion...

#Literature

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

#Past

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

#Realism

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

#Adventure, #Risk-taking

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

#Cute Friend

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

#Funny Friendship

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

#Famous, #Friendship

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

#Classy Women

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

#Growing Up, #Illusions, #Life