4,370 Quotes About Literature

You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

Those who lead a literary life seem old when they're young and young when they're old, but they're never actually either. Like a good book, they are bound by neither category nor time.

Terkadang, salah dan benar hanya dipisahkan oleh sesuatu yang tak pernah ada.

...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

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

The end of the world can be cozy at times.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

So long as there is gold underneath, who cares about the dust on top? Literature! That old whore! We must try to dose her with mercury and pills and clean her out from top to bottom, she has been so ultra-screwed by filthy pricks!

The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance.