Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

All literature is protest.

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to express themselves. All literature is written by mentally precocious adolescents and by mentally precocious senescents.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

All things are only transitory.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about how the rising power of the masses was hazardous to industrialists.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

A loafer always has the correct time.

Almost everything I've learned about journalism has been from other friends who are journalists, taking advantage of the money I hope they don't think they threw away at j-school. I studied comparative literature, but the professional vagaries of journalism I've learned through other people's trial and error, and my own.

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

A louse in the locks of literature.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

Also, I've already won all the awards.