Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly advocate an absurd amount of specification to go along with the label.

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Good literature makes your head throb heartlike

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

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.