Literature Quotes - Page 14

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.