Virginia Woolf

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

Virginia Woolf

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Virginia Woolf

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

Virginia Woolf

The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Virginia Woolf

The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

Virginia Woolf

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.

Virginia Woolf

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Virginia Woolf

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Virginia Woolf

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

Virginia Woolf

There’ll be oceans of talk and emotions without end.

Virginia Woolf