Literature Quotes - Page 7

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and relevant human qualities in the present and then pass them on to future generations.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.