Quotes by Woolf, Virginia

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistica >>

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exact >>

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abst >>

Quotations about War

War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the >>

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiven >>

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, f >>

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or our country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.

Woolf, Virginia