Virginia Woolf Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

  Virginia Woolf

  Notebook, Teacher, Women

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.565, Wordsworth Editions

• Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Communication, Light, Ignorant

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

• It is the duty of the writer to describe.

  Virginia Woolf

  Duty

• To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely then lust or gunpowder. The poet's, then, is the highest office of all. His words reach where others fall short. A silly song of Shakespeare's has done more for the poor and the wicked than all the preachers and philanthropists in the world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Song, Silly, Fall

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

• I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Thinking, Names

  "A Moment's Liberty". Book by Virginia Woolf, 1990.

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