More From Virginia Woolf
- "It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
- "This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."
- "Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."
More In History
- "Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort."― Mason Cooley
- "Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows."― Dante Alighieri
- "No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war."― Phyllis Schlafly