Famous Quotes
249 Quotations with Literature.
- 1. Oscar Wilde: But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
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- 2. Isaac Bashevis Singer: The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between ...
- 3. S. I. Hayakawa: In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than peopl ...
- 4. Helen Keller: Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses ...
- 5. George Bernard Shaw: What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitu ...
- 6. Henry David Thoreau: Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, litera ...
- 7. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, with ...
- 8. Robert: This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as rea ...
- 9. Virginia Woolf: Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason th ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: CURSE, v.t. Energetically to belabor with a verbal slap-stick. This is an operat ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards c ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane liter ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relati ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, ...
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In literature, and p ...
- 19. Ian Shoales: Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the ...
- 20. Dorothy Parker: The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the pre ...