Virginia Woolf's most famous lines
The top 3 according to 20 votes from people: Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. · Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. · No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.. (Updated Apr 14, 2021.)
From 'a room of her own' and the bolt you cannot set upon the freedom of the mind to Anon, who was often a woman: Virginia Woolf's most quoted lines, from her novels and essays, with the book they come from.
Top 12
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
A Room of One's Own (1929).
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Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day.
'Modern Fiction', The Common Reader (1925).
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
A Room of One's Own (1929).
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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
Orlando (1928).
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
A Room of One's Own (1929).
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
A Room of One's Own (1929).
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
A Room of One's Own (1929).
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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
A Room of One's Own (1929).
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Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
Mrs Dalloway (1925), first sentence.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
The Moment and Other Essays (1948).
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Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.
Three Guineas (1938).
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
A Room of One's Own (1929).
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