Literature Quotes - Page 93

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.

The post of honour is a private station.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.