Virginia Woolf Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.

  Virginia Woolf

  Library, Sanctuary, Spirit

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2597, Delphi Classics

• Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Order, Should

  Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose (2003). “The Mrs. Dalloway reader”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

  Virginia Woolf

  Animal, Self, Leader

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932”, Chatto & Windus

• It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Women, Men

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.136, Oxford University Press

• Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. Any help we can give you must be different from that you can give yourselves, and perhaps the value of that help may lie in the fact of that difference.

  Virginia Woolf

  Lying, Eye, Differences

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2751, Delphi Classics

• As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Pleasure, Certain

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928”, Harcourt on Demand

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