Quotes by Woolf, Virginia

A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born nak >>

If we didn't live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, >>

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a l >>

Quotations about Language

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, >>

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargo >>

Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, >>

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

Woolf, Virginia