Literature Quotes - Page 29

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's "too soft" or "too hard," about 999 would say "too hard."

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.