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QUOTATIONS BY

Virginia Woolf
( 1882 - 1941 )



  • "For most of history,
    Anonymous was a woman."
    -Virginia Woolf


  • "Humor is the first of the gifts
    to perish in a foreign tongue."
    -Virginia Woolf


  • "Nothing has really happened
    until it has been recorded."
    -Virginia Woolf


  • "If you do not tell the truth about yourself
    you cannot tell it about other people."
    -Virginia Woolf


  • "It is in our idleness.. in our dreams,
    that the submerged truth
    sometimes comes to the top."
    -Virginia Woolf


  • "Each has his past shut in him like the
    leaves of a book known to him by heart."
    -Virginia Woolf


  • "On the outskirts of every agony
    sits some observant fellow who points."
    -Virginia Woolf


  • "I read the book of Job last night..
    I don't think God comes out well in it."
    -Virginia Woolf


  • "I have lost friends, some by death, others
    through sheer inability to cross the street."
    -Virginia Woolf


  • "Literature is strewn with the wreckage
    of those who have minded beyond reason
    the opinion of others."
    -Virginia Woolf


  • "One cannot think well,
    love well, sleep well,
    if one has not dined well."
    -Virginia Woolf


  • "The first duty of a lecturer:
    to hand you after an hour's discourse
    a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
    between the pages of your notebooks,
    and keep on the mantlepiece forever."
    -Virginia Woolf


  • "The older one grows,
    the more one likes indecency."
    -Virginia Woolf


  • "Why are women so much
    more interesting to men
    than men are to women?"
    -Virginia Woolf





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