"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts,..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.”

“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”

“How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.”

“Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.”

“When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.”

“I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”

“I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.”

“I would stand upon facts.”