Literature Quotes - Page 90

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.