Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.

Very often I hear talk about female literature, or femininity in literature. It's a categorization I am not sure about. Maybe there are a few elements that distinguish women's observations from men's, like the ability to notice some fine details.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

Virtue is not a chemical product...it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.