Literature Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Literature
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~ Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse ~

~ I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. ~

Sidney Hook

~ Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world ~

Henry Louis Mencken

~ The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. ~

James Loeb

~ Journalism is literature in a hurry. ~

Matthew Arnold

~ Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ~

Virginia Woolf

~ Works of art and literature should promote humans to reflection. A revolutionary perspective should be evoked and a changing societal awakening formulated in the human mind mired in tradition, myth and many kinds of falsehoods. They demand a form of changing social awakening. ~

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

~ The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul ~

Thomas Moore

~ 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 trades” ~

Mark Twain

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