"This is an important book, the critic..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Soup is cuisines kindest course”

“We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.”

“A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch of the angry professor had been made in anger. Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom--all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.”

“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.”

“Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.”

“All bad writers are in love with the epic.”

“People throw rocks at things that shine.”

“I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.”

“Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.”