Literature Quotes - Page 146

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.

The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does "fame" become, especially of the literary sort. This species of "fame" a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.

Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.

As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between theilliterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects. We should be as good as the worthies of antiquity, but partly by first knowing how good they were.