Quotes about literature
literature doe students
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning. Northrop Frye
literature mythology humans
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
literature study subjects
Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
literature now-and-then made
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened. Norman Maclean
literature projects
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off. Norman Ralph Augustine
literature needs easy
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
literature tasks more-time
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
literature firsts
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. Novalis
literature can-do
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
literature honest being-honest
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life. Ellen Glasgow
literature return fountain
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
literature majority-and-minority minorities
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. Henrik Ibsen
literature grows mortals
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune. Hesiod
literature morgues related
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related. Heinrich Heine
literature ass public-speaking
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
literature eternity
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity. Henry Ward Beecher
literature injury humans
To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him. Henry James
literature adore adverbs
I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
literature glory modern
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. Helen Vendler
literature lasts promotion
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
literature world remains
The world remains ever the same.
literature all-things transitory
All things are only transitory.
literature steps caution
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
literature littles fractions
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 mental-strength
To create something you must be something.
literature fool merit
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
literature midnight weak
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. Edgar Allan Poe
literature danger terror
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
literature
The thing we fear we bring to pass. Elbert Hubbard
literature anticipation remember
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
literature remarks
Remarks are not literature. Gertrude Stein
literature knows do-you-know
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
literature lessons repetition
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.