Literature Quotes

A woman's health is her capital.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

All great art and literature is propaganda.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

And cooking is about balance and harmony.

This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.

You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

Where would fashion be without literature?

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

Without literature, life is hell.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.