"Why, he wondered, did people who had..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”

“And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.”

“When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?”

“Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.”

“I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.”

“Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.”

“They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?”

“Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.”

“There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.”