Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare's plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

Life is so unlike theory.

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.

Life without literary studies is death.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Literary revolution and revolutionary literature did not create a beautiful new world but instead divested literature of its basic nature, promoted violence, and, by resorting to linguistic violence, made a battlefield of this domain of spiritual freedom.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.