Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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

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

Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.

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

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 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.

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

Light is the symbol of truth.

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

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.

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.

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.

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.

Literature can be divided into two large families: the religious and the secular one. The first reveals the origin of stupidity, the second follows its evolution.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.