Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as there is none for the observer of the universe - we are all within.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.