Literature Quotes - Page 41

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.

God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.