Quotes about literature
literature exhibitionism modesty
If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism. Mason Cooley
literature i-have-learned exceptional
I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
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 delight scolding
Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
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.
literature complaining complainers
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
literature garbage humans
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
literature sofas ideology
Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.
literature realizing enough
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us. Mary Augusta Ward
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 consumerism hardest
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
literature emotion
There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance. Michael Ondaatje
literature reluctant sort
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world. Jefferson Mays
literature obvious
It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves. Neale Donald Walsch
literature swiftness proportion
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. Marcel Proust
literature posterity
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. Joseph Addison
literature prophet prove
Jesters do often prove prophets.
literature privilege doe
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. James Russell Lowell
literature world born
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
literature lasts should
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.
literature asks pens
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. Laurence Sterne
literature way piety
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect. Friedrich Durrenmatt
literature throat
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
literature doe mourn
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
literature coincidence worst
The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
literature truth-is delusion
Truth is always a delusion.