Quote

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

Virginia Woolf

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Feminist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Publisher
Short Story Writer
Writer
London
England
Virxhinia Ulf
Virginia yo juanito Adeline Woolf
Virg̔inyah Vold
Virdžiniâ Vulf
Virdzhiniia Vulf
Virzhinia Ulf
Virginia Stephen
Virzhin︠iia Ulf
Adeline Virginia Stephen
Virginyah Volf
Adeline Virginia Woolf
Virginia Adeline Woolf
Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf
Birtzinia Gulph
Virginia Stephen Woolf
Woolf
Virginia
1882-1941
Forever
Discourse
Mantelpiece
Hours
Hour
Nugget
Keep
Pages
Nuggets
Hands
Pure
Notebooks
Truth
Duty
Lecturer
Women
Teacher
Wrap
Firsts
Learning
Wraps
First
Hand
Notebook

More quotes by Virginia Woolf

Image
Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day
Virginia Woolf
Image
Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.
Virginia Woolf
Image
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
Virginia Woolf
Image
At 46 one must be a miser only have time for essentials.
Virginia Woolf
Image
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Virginia Woolf
Image
You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.
Virginia Woolf
Image
She began framing the words of her telegram into a senseless singsong so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favourable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace which she wore.
Virginia Woolf
Image
The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them the night wrapped them nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness
Virginia Woolf
Image
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.
Virginia Woolf
Image
Life stand still here.
Virginia Woolf
Image
These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.
Virginia Woolf
Image
Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
Virginia Woolf
Image
Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.
Virginia Woolf
Image
I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
Virginia Woolf
Image
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
Virginia Woolf
Image
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.
Virginia Woolf
Image
It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.
Virginia Woolf
Image
It is the duty of the writer to describe.
Virginia Woolf
Image
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
Virginia Woolf
Image
The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.
Virginia Woolf