Virginia Woolf Quotes about War

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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.

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

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)

War is not women's history.

Virginia Woolf

Inspiring, War, Empowering

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

Virginia Woolf

War, Men, Games

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

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