Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from other aspects of life: it's still embedded in religion, magic and social ceremonies.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it never changes its essence, because the contracts that have come about over time for communication cannot be rescinded so easily.

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ever take the place of one's sensitiveness to the life of the earth. This is the beginning and the end of a person's true education.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Nothing in fine print is ever good news.