The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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