Virginia Woolf
Books and Quotes Collection
Jacob's Room
1922
"Dear me," said Mrs. Flanders, when she read in the Scarborough and Harrogate Courier that the Rev. Andrew Floyd, etc., etc., had been made Principal of Maresfield House, "that must be our Mr. Floyd."
The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocksβso it sounded.
It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.
And the light mounts over the faces of all the tall blind houses, slides through a chink and paints the lustrous bellying crimson curtains [β¦]
To the Lighthouse
1927Orlando: A Biography
1928
He skirted all stables, kennels, breweries, carpenters' shops, washhouses, places where they make tallow candles, kill oxen, forge horse-shoes, stitch jerkinsβfor the house was a town ringing with men at work at their various craftsβand gained the ferny path leading uphill through the park unseen.
The Great Frost was, historians tell us, the most severe that has ever visited these islands. Birds froze in mid air and fell like stones to the ground. [β¦] The mortality among sheep and cattle was enormous.