Literature Quotes - Page 103

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from when it comes to taking a literature class.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

literature is the last banquet between minds.

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.