Leonard Woolf Quotes

United Kingdom, Politician
November 25, 1880 – 9690 BC.

Leonard Sidney Woolf (/ˈwʊlf/; 25 November 1880 – 14 August 1969) was a British political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant, and husband of author Virginia Woolf.

Also known as Author, Publisher, Civil Servant

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

Leonard Woolf
- Writer
- Portrait
- Diaries
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
- Life
- Life is
- Aim

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

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

Leonard Woolf
- Face
- Stupidity
- Hated
There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

Leonard Woolf
- Men
- Class
- Tenacious
You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

Leonard Woolf
- Desire
- Moon
- Extremely
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

Leonard Woolf
- People