Virginia Woolf

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#curtain #draw #essay #good #must

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#kingdom #legitimate #philanthropic

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#foreign #gifts #humor #perish #tongue

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

— Virginia Woolf

#cleanliness #endeavour #extravagance #genius #hard

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#down #jelly #much #people #quotations

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#better #down #likes #misfortune #much

That great Cathedral space which was childhood. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#childhood #great #space #which

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#clothes #connection #dress #far #finest

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

— Virginia Woolf

#either #itself #must #nobler #precede

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

— Virginia Woolf

#father #form #less #odious #profession