Bloomsbury Group
Bloomsbury group is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.
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🇬🇧Virginia Woolf
Literature
Bloomsbury Group
1882–1941
"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves."
133 quotes
John Maynard Keynes
Economics
Bloomsbury Group
1883–1946
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
117 quotes
E. M. Forster
Literature
Bloomsbury Group
1879–1970
"Axiom: Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise."
102 quotes
🇬🇧Roger Fry
Art
Bloomsbury Group
1866–1934
"Only those who have experienced the elation and despair which comes from the attempt to express their feelings about vision in oil paint will know that it is impossible to speak with complete impartiality about art."
9 quotes
🇬🇧Harold Nicolson
Politics
Bloomsbury Group
1886–1968
"Dr Johnson is the only conversationalist who triumphs over time."
7 quotes
🇬🇧Lytton Strachey
Literature
Bloomsbury Group
1880–1932
"It is not business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them...dispassionately, impartially, and without ulterior motives."
6 quotes
🇬🇧Vita Sackville-West
Literature
Bloomsbury Group
1892–1962
"Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this."
13 quotes
🇬🇧John Strachey
Economics
Bloomsbury Group
1901–1963
4 quotes
🇬🇧Jane Ellen Harrison
Literature
Bloomsbury Group
1850–1928
5 quotes
🇬🇧Mulk Raj Anand
Literature
Bloomsbury Group
1905–2004
"Please look out for the few thorns that might have got mixed up with the roses."
5 quotes
Notable Quotes
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
— Virginia Woolf, b. 1882View →
"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves."
— Virginia Woolf, b. 1882View →
"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"
— Virginia Woolf, b. 1882View →
"It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning."
— Virginia Woolf, b. 1882View →
"The sound of the trumpets died away and Orlando stood stark naked. No human being, since the world began, has ever looked more ravishing. His form combined in one the strength of a man and a woman's grace."
— Virginia Woolf, b. 1882View →