Virginia Woolf

Born :25 January 1882

Tribute :28 March 1941

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Virginia Woolf born on 25th January 1882, and passed away on 28th March 1941, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire generations. Over the past 59 years, we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 86 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in british and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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Quotes of Virginia Woolf

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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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