Virginia Woolf Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Character, Doors

  "The Common Reader: First series".

• War is not women's history.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspiring, War, Empowering

• This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Peace, War, Women

  A Room of One's Own ch. 4 (1929)

• We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

  Virginia Woolf

  Peace, War, Finding The One

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.366

• If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

  Virginia Woolf

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Three Guineas”, p.51, Virginia Woolf

• war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Men, Games

• History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Men, History

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.630, Wordsworth Editions

• The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

  Virginia Woolf

  Peace, War, Clothes

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.797, Wordsworth Editions

• The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Fighting, Clouds

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf - Including a Short Biography of the Author”, p.6, Read Books Ltd

• if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, War, Believe

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.853, Wordsworth Editions

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