Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Leonard Woolf

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British author Leonard Woolf.

Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Leonard Sidney Woolf was a British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant. He was married to author Virginia Woolf. As a member of the Labour Party and the Fabian Society, Woolf was an avid publisher of his own work and his wife's novels. A writer himself, Woolf would create nineteen individual works and write six autobiographies. Leonard and Virginia would not have any children.

British - Author | November 25, 1880 - August 14, 1969

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The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

Leonard Woolf

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

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

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

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 the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.

Leonard Woolf

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

Leonard Woolf

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

Leonard Woolf

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

Leonard Woolf