Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Amadeus Mozart is to music something like Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was to literature. They are people who created something that nobody before them had. Absolute geniuses. You can recognize their harmonies among thousands.

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.'

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

American literature has always been immigrant.

America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or (read) cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with or which dampens the spirit of missionary work. There is ample evidence that rock music is offensive to the Spirit and affects adversely the spirituality of the missionaries and thus the success of the proselyting work.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience.

An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's compressed and zipped philosophy . It is literature that adapts itself to the digital age.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.