Virginia Woolf Quotes About War

We have collected for you the TOP of Virginia Woolf's best quotes about War! Here are collected all the quotes about War starting from the birthday of the Writer – January 25, 1882! We hope you will be inspired to new achievements with our constantly updated collection of quotes. At the moment, this page contains 10 sayings of Virginia Woolf about War. We will be happy if you share our collection of quotes with your friends on social networks!
  • 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.

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

    Women  
    A Room of One's Own ch. 4 (1929)
  • The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

    Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.797, Wordsworth Editions
  • War is not women's history.

  • 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.

    "The Common Reader: First series".
  • History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

    Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.630, Wordsworth Editions
  • 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 (2016). “Three Guineas”, p.51, Virginia Woolf
  • 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, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.366
  • war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

  • 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 (2016). “The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf - Including a Short Biography of the Author”, p.6, Read Books Ltd
Page 1 of 1
Did you find Virginia Woolf's interesting saying about War? We will be glad if you share the quote with your friends on social networks! This page contains Writer quotes from Writer Virginia Woolf about War collected since January 25, 1882! Come back to us again – we are constantly replenishing our collection of quotes so that you can always find inspiration by reading a quote from one or another author!