Literature Quotes

Inequality was the price of civilization.

Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask...

Say a day without the ever.

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time

Estragon: You see, you feel worse when I'm with you. I feel better alone, too.Vladmir: Then why do you always come crawling back?Estragon: I don't know.

There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves.

A cardinal principle of good fiction [is]: the theme and the plot of a novel must be integrated—as thoroughly integrated as mind and body or thought and action in a rational view of man.

In art, and in literature, the end and the means, or the subject and the style, must be worthy of each other.That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth re-creating in art.

A good novel is an indivisible sum: every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread.

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

Maybe its because i rejoice over what i have and don't grieve over what i don't have".

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.

In my mind's eye

I am never long even in the society of her I love without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Literature is my utopia.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

To influence a person is to give him one's own soul.

I love rain because tears can not be seen in rain.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...

Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.

A library is more precious than a bank.

If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.

Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!

There is nothing political about American literature.

But why, " he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?"Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, "Because at school they are made to hate it.

The odd was the ordinary at Alistair Grim's. The people who lived there were odd. The things they did there were odd. Even the there itself there was odd.

I don't know what you have thought of. Everyone thinks to the extent of his depravity..." #HenriettaLedyanova. #ItalianPassion

You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion:

You've got something that I don't have. Innocence. Ur eyes express it, & I can read everything in them". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion

You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion

Although I think the word "pleasure" is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion

I cannot perceive that you're still a girl. Ur kisses don't seem so innocent. They just drive me crazy!" #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion

I want to forget myself in you..." #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion

You are like a narcotic plant..." #TimothySvetlov. #ItalianPassion

Stop smiling as if we'd been acquainted with you for ages!" #VeronicaLedyanova. #ItalianPassion

We create our work for children not because they're "cute, " but because they're human beings, deserving of respect.

One realizes the immortality of true love only after the lover dies