Leonard Woolf
Leonard Woolf
Leonard Sidney Woolfwas an English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant, and husband of author Virginia Woolf...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth25 November 1880
moon desire vague
You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.
dental-work people painful
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.
giving portraits diaries
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
stupidity letters faces
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
men class privilege
There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.
self musical records
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.
men effort barbarians
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.