Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as there is none for the observer of the universe - we are all within.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.

Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

English has a better way with colloquialisms. It has colloquialisms that are colorful and expressive but not too heavy or distracting. In German, if you use colloquialisms, it quickly descends into some kind of dialect literature.

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.