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

- Leonard Woolf

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

- Leonard Woolf

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

- 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

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

- 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 mus…

- Leonard Woolf