English Quotes
260 quotes in this collection
"The human figure even at its best is a very poor piece of work compared with the flowers and the trees."
-- Virginia Woolf"What is the meaning of life? That was all — a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years."
-- Virginia Woolf"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."
-- Virginia Woolf"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind of the reader."
-- Virginia Woolf"Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
-- Virginia Woolf"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of emancipation itself."
-- Virginia Woolf"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."
-- Virginia Woolf"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."
-- Virginia Woolf"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
-- Virginia Woolf"Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title."
-- Virginia Woolf"Indeed, if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance."
-- Virginia Woolf"It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men."
-- Virginia Woolf
