Literature Quotes
+1The great Cham of literature.
- Samuel Johnson
+1All literature is gossip.
- Truman Capote
+1The crown of literature is poetry.
- William Somerset
+1Literature is the question minus the answer.
- Roland Barthes
+1Literature is the immortality of speech.
- August Wilhelm
+1Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Literary Men are a perpetual priesthood.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1We cultivate literature on a little oat meal.
- Sydney Smith
+1Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
- Anonymous
+1Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
+1Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
- Robert Fitzgerald
+1He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
- Joseph Heller
+1Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
- Georges Simenon
+1The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters.
- William King
+1The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee.
- Mme. Marie Rabutin
+1A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
- Max Eastman
+1People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.
- Robert Louis
+1It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
- Alfred North Whitehead
+1People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
- Chinua Achebe
+1. . . there are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
- Charles Dickens
+1The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
- Aldous Huxley
+1Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
- Ford Madox Ford
+1All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It’s fiction’s business to ask them.
- Richard Hughes
+1For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
- Herman Melville
+1Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.
- A.W. Hare
+1Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
- John Morley
+1While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
- Cyril Connolly
+1To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
- Ernst Fischer
+1. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
- Thomas Babington
+1The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
- Johann Wolfgang
+1Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature.
- John Moschitta
+1Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
- Virginia Woolf
+1Time the great destroyer of other men’s happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
- Isaac D’Israeli
+1Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
- Cyril Connolly
+1Good children’s literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
- Anon
+1One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
- Frank Moore Colby
+1Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
- Isaac D’Israeli
