Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience of American literature. Second, it's really got to be invested in a number of what-if questions.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Folly always knows the answer.

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

For me especially, I always need that literature medium.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.