Quotes about literature
literature johnson
The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson) Tobias Smollett
literature moral architecture
The higher the building the lower the morals. Noel Coward
literature giants looks
Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. Miguel de Cervantes
literature advantage servant
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
literature bearable knows
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. Neil Gaiman
literature disease firsts
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
literature speech needs
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed John Steinbeck
literature applause kicks
Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause. Kin Hubbard
literature losing loser
It's the good loser who finally loses out.
literature trouble grew
Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.
literature habit caught
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
literature emotion
There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance. Michael Ondaatje
literature individual bankruptcy
Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life. Marilyn vos Savant
literature appearance function
Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
literature paper peer-review
...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is! Phil Jones
literature taught easier
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth. Mortimer Adler
literature mess
Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it. Philip Roth
literature sincere malice
Malice is always authentic and sincere. Mason Cooley
literature flow facts
Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
literature reputation forgotten
Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
literature trouble fulfillment
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
literature tone moral
The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
literature body finance
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
literature may
Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.
literature moral old-fashioned
Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.
literature
Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
literature exhibitionism modesty
If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
literature prime knows
I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.
literature eternal-life frightening
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
literature interpreting observing
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
literature littles thirty
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
literature innocence charming
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
literature baffled insult
We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.