Virginia Woolf citáty (399 citátov, page 11) | Citáty slávnych osobností

Sometimes ascribed to Virginia Woolf, but it appeared as early as 1854 in Anna Jameson's A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies, where it is ascribed to William Wordsworth.
Misattributed

“We may enjoy our room in the tower, with the painted walls and the commodious bookcases, but down in the garden there is a man digging who buried his father this morning, and it is he and his like who live the real life and speak the real language.”

Help us translate this quote

Virginia Woolf The Common Reader

"Montaigne" http://teaching.quotidiana.org/essays/Woolf_Montaigne.html <br class="br">The Common Reader (1925)

“Outwardly, what is simpler than to write books? Outwardly, what obstacles are there for a woman rather than for a man? Inwardly, I think, the case is very different; she has still many ghosts to fight, many prejudices to overcome. Indeed it will be a long time still, I think, before a woman can sit down to write a book without finding a phantom to be slain, a rock to be dashed against. And if this is so in literature, the freest of all professions for women, how is it in the new professions which you are now for the first time entering?”

Help us translate this quote

Virginia Woolf

"Professions for Women"
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)

“In the past, the virtue of women's writing often lay in its divine spontaneity … But it was also, and much more often, chattering and garrulous … In future, granted time and books and a little space in the house for herself, literature will become for women, as for men, an art to be studied. Women's gift will be trained and strengthened. The novel will cease to be the dumping-ground for the personal emotions. It will become, more than at present, a work of art like any other, and its resources and its limitations will be explored.”

Help us translate this quote

Virginia Woolf

"Women and Fiction"
Granite and Rainbow (1958)

“At this Helen laughed outright. "Nonsense," she said. "You're not a Christian. You've never thought what you are.—And there are lots of other questions," she continued, "though perhaps we can't ask them yet." Although they had talked so freely they were all uncomfortably conscious that they really knew nothing about each other.
"The important questions," Hewet pondered, "the really interesting ones. I doubt that one ever does ask them."
Rachel, who was slow to accept the fact that only a very few things can be said even by people who know each other well, insisted on knowing what he meant.
"Whether we've ever been in love?" she enquired. "Is that the kind of question you mean?"”

Help us translate this quote

Virginia Woolf kniha The Voyage Out

The Voyage Out (1915), Ch. XI

“In brain and insight she is not as highly organised as I am. But then she is aware of this, and so lavishes on me the maternal protection which, for some reason, is what I have always most wished from everyone.”

Help us translate this quote

Virginia Woolf

Monday 21 December 1925
A Moment's Liberty (1990)

“You are not listening to me. You are making phrases about Byron. And while you gesticulate, with your cloak, your cane, I am trying to expose a secret told to nobody yet; I am asking you (as I stand with my back to you) to take my life in your hands and tell me whether I am doomed always to cause repulsion in those I love?”

Help us translate this quote

Virginia Woolf kniha The Waves

Bernard, section III
The Waves (1931)

“Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.”

Help us translate this quote

Virginia Woolf

Monday 20 April 1925
A Moment's Liberty (1990)

“Here I come to one of the memoir writer’s difficulties — one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: ‘This is what happened’; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. Who was I then? Adeline Virginia Stephen, the second daughter of Leslie and Julia Prinsep Stephen, born on 25th January 1882, descended from a great many people, some famous, others obscure; born into a large connection, born not of rich parents, but of well-to-do parents, born into a very communicative, literate, letter writing, visiting, articulate, late nineteenth century world.”

Help us translate this quote

Virginia Woolf

"A Sketch of the Past" (written 1939, published posthumously)

“Margaret Ll. Davies writes that Janet is dying and will I write on her for The Times – a curious thought, rather: as if it mattered who wrote, or not. But this flooded me with the idea of Janet yesterday. I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.”

Help us translate this quote

Virginia Woolf

Entry of 11 July 1937, in A Writer's Diary (1953)

“A desire for children, I suppose; for Nessa's life; for the sense of flowers breaking all round me involuntarily. […] Years and years ago, after the Lytton affair, I said to myself, walking up the hill at Bayreuth, never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having; good advice I think. And then I went on to say to myself that one must like things for themselves; or rather, rid them of their bearing upon one's personal life. One must venture on to the things that exist independently of oneself. Now this is very hard for young women to do. Yet I got satisfaction from it. And now, married to L., I never have to make the effort. Perhaps I have been to happy for my soul's good? And does some of my discontent come from feeling that?”

Help us translate this quote

Virginia Woolf

2 January 1923
A Moment's Liberty (1990)

“Morgan has the artist's mind; he says the simple things that clever people don't say; I find him the best of critics for that reason. Suddenly out comes the obvious thing that one has overlooked.”

Help us translate this quote

Virginia Woolf

6 November 1919
A Moment's Liberty (1990)

“The chief charges against her were (1) that she was dead, and therefore could not hold any property; (2) that she was a woman which amounts to much the same thing …”

Help us translate this quote

Virginia Woolf kniha Orlando: A Biography

Zdroj: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 4

Podobní autori

Patrícia Holečková4

česká spisovateľka None

Selma Lagerlöf6

švédska spisovateľka None

Sigrid Undset1

nórska spisovateľka None

Pearl S. Buck25

americká spisovateľka None

Jerome Klapka Jerome26

anglický humorista None

Terry Pratchett55

anglický autor None

Agatha Christie36

britská spisovateľka detektívnej a mystery literatúry None

Simone de Beauvoir35

francúzska spisovateľka, intelektuálka, existencialistická … None

Alan Rickman2

anglický herec None

Douglas Adams18

anglický spisovateľ a humorista None