“ The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true. Leonard Woolf
“ Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of… Leonard Woolf
“ Suddenly I heard Virginia’s voice calling to me from the sitting room window: Hitler is making a speech. I shouted back, I shan’t come. I’m planting iris and they will be flowering long after he is de… Leonard Woolf
“ Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face". Leonard Woolf
“ I get your moments when nothing seems to matter & I suppose that most of the time we, or I at any rate, are passively inert to happiness or unhappiness. I mean that we are so persistently automatic th… Leonard Woolf
“ Novels by serious writers of genius often eventually become best-sellers, but most contemporary best-sellers are written by second-class writers whose psychological brew contains a touch of naïvety, a… Leonard Woolf
