Literature Quotes - Page 94

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

To create something you must be something.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

I started as a print reporter. I’m a journalist and that’s what I do. My function is an anchorperson, but it’s in a journalism context, and gravitas and coats and ties and haircuts and all that sort of stuff, I’ll leave to others. My thing is just to do my job the best way I know how and as I say I’m very fortunate to be able to do it the way I want to do it.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.