Literature Quotes - Page 85

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Passions are the gales of life.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much more easily into the fields of painting, literature, and the theater.

What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.