Literature Quotes - Page 79

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

People can die of mere imagination.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

He who awaits much can expect little.

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.