Literature Quotes



Literature the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
John, Lord Morley (1838-1923) English writer, Liberal politician.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself from the wrongs of his condition.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
W.R.Inge (1860-1954) Dean of St.Paul’s London.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) American author.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American Poet.

The cultivation of liberty pursuits forms the basis of all sciences, and in their perfection consists the reputation and prosperity of kingdoms.
Marques de Pombal (1699-1782) Portuguese statesman.

Literature is always a good card to play for Honours. It makes people think that Cabinet ministers are educated.
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) British novelist.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) American novelist.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power: all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.
Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) English author.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment; of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written, and of this but little is extant.
Goethe.

The literature of an age is but the mirror of its prevalent tendencies.
Nation.

The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theater of his own age; but hose of a Scott or a Shakespeare will be renewed with greater and greater luster in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.
Prescott.

The literature of a people must spring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
Mrs. Stowe.

A beautiful literature springs from the depth and fullness of intellectual and moral life, from an energy of thought and feeling, to which nothing, as we believe, ministers so largely as enlightened religion.
Channing.

Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done.
Froude.

Literature os a great staff, but a sorry crutch.
Walter scott.

When literature is the sole business of life, it becomes a drudgery. When we are able to resort to it only at certain hours, it is a charming relaxation. In my earlier days I was a banker’s clerk, obliged to be at the desk every day from ten till five O’clock; and I shall never forget the delight with which, on returning home, I used to read and write during the evening.
Rogers.

Literary dissipation is no less destructive of sympathy with the living world, than sensual dissipation. Mere intellect is as hard hearted and as heart hardening as mere sense; and the union of the two, when uncontrolled by the conscience and without the softening, purifying influences of the moral affections, is all that is requisite to produce the diabolical ideal of our nature.
Anon.

Books only partially represent their authors; the writer is always greater than his work.
Bovee.

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we get second hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.,
Colton.

In the literature of the world there is not one popular book which is immoral that continues to exist two centuries after it is produced; for in the heart of nations the false does not live so long, and the true is ethical to the end of time.
Bulwer.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well being of the church and state.
Bacon.

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