“ Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live i… James Kelman
“ Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it. Robert Arger
“ Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as whenThe bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,Her ashes new-create another heirAs great in admiration as herself. William Shakespeare
“ What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game… Margaret Atwood
“ The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the publi… Oscar Wilde
“ English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is the language through which I flirt with my species. English is the language through which I make my s… Abhijit Naskar
“ Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time! Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ ...the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?...You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things,… Harry Blamires
“ Here rests his head upon the lap of earthA youth to fortune and to fame unknown.Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,And Melancholy marked him for her own. Thomas Gray
“ When the devout religion of mine eyeMaintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires,And these, who, often drowned, could never die,Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!One fairer than my love?… William Shakespeare
“ But why," he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?"Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, "Because at school they are made to hate it. Olaf Stapledon
