Literature Quotes - Page 8

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'

Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.