Virginia Woolf Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• 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

• Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Animal, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.21, Oxford University Press, USA

• One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, Animal, Vanity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.185, Wordsworth Editions

• But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.

  Virginia Woolf

  Animal, Simple, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• ... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

  Virginia Woolf

  Animal, Doubt, Capacity

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4383, Delphi Classics

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