Literature Quotes - Page 47

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Without literature, life is hell.

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

I have a very ecumenical faith. I have a very inclusive faith. There's a quote I love from recovery literature that says, "The realm of the spirit is roomy and broad. It is open to all." I've absolutely staked my life on that.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.

Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.

It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate them. And that is what poetry or painting or literature or filmmaking is all about... and it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.