Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Half of the ills we hoard within our hearts Are ills because we hoard them.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.

He who awaits much can expect little.