Literature Quotes

I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.

Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national in one sense, but its purpose has been universal. That was why it commanded the attention of people who were not followers of a particular culture.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Very few of us are what we seem.

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.