Literature Quotes - Page 101

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.