Literature Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Literature
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~ When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language ~

James Earl Jones

~ Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. ~

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

~ Romance is the poetry of literature. ~

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

~ The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all tradesî ~

Mark Twain

~ Literature is the immortality of speech ~

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

~ Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. ~

G K Chesterton

~ The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. ~

Anatole France

~ Literature is news that stays news. ~

Ezra Pound

~ Literature is the question minus the answer. ~

Roland Barthes

~ Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. ~

Iris Murdoch

~ In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people. ~

AndrÈ Maurois

~ Literature is analysis after the event. ~

Doris Lessing

~ Literature is my utopia. ~

Helen Keller

~ Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse. ~

Joseph Roux

~ Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. ~

Walter Savage Landor

~ Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. ~

Thornton Wilder

~ Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. ~

Dean William R. Inge

~ Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. ~

C.S. Lewis

~ The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ~

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~ Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. ~

Salman Rushdie

~ Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others ~

Virginia Woolf

~ Literature is the immortality of speech ~

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

~ Bad literature is a form of treason. ~

Joseph Brodsky

~ Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. ~

Nelson Algren

~ Literature is the thought of thinking Souls. ~

Thomas Carlyle

~ Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. ~

Isaac D\'Israeli

~ Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. ~

John Morley

~ To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. ~

Ernst Fischer

~ In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation. ~

Stephen Leacock

~ Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. ~

Helen Keller

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