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Top 9 Leonard Woolf Quotes (2025 Update)

Leonard Woolf Quote: “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 dead.”

1. “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 dead.”

— Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf Quote: “Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”

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

— Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf Quote: “You can’t love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.”

3. “You can’t love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.”

— Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf Quote: “There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.”

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

— Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf Quote: “The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.”

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

— Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf Quote: “Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes “for his crass stupidity and hideous face”.”

6. “Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes “for his crass stupidity and hideous face”.”

— Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf Quote: “Nothing matters. You get yourself into a state in which you imagine things which have no basis in reality... One begins for some reason to worry about something and, if one allows oneself to go on doing that, one gradually imagines all kinds of things. It is a kind of self-indulgence and one gets into a perpetual daydream. It is essential to stop this process and face the real world – which is never so bad as all that.”

7. “Nothing matters. You get yourself into a state in which you imagine things which have no basis in reality... One begins for some reason to worry about something and, if one allows oneself to go on doing that, one gradually imagines all kinds of things. It is a kind of self-indulgence and one gets into a perpetual daydream. It is essential to stop this process and face the real world – which is never so bad as all that.”

— Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf Quote: “The violent but narrow passions that pass under the name of patriotism are not the noblest forms of human and social emotions. The world, or the people who, unfortunately, have most to say in governing the world, believe no such thing, and will not believe it when the representatives of States meet again to decide how to fill up the graves which they helped dig in Europe.”

8. “The violent but narrow passions that pass under the name of patriotism are not the noblest forms of human and social emotions. The world, or the people who, unfortunately, have most to say in governing the world, believe no such thing, and will not believe it when the representatives of States meet again to decide how to fill up the graves which they helped dig in Europe.”

— Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf Quote: “At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.”

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

— Leonard Woolf

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