Quotes by Woolf, Virginia

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into >>

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

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity >>

Quotations about Conformity

For all have not the gift of martyrdom. >>

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind >>

The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alik >>

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Woolf, Virginia