Top Literature Quotes

We knock upon silence for an answering music.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

Literature Definition

(n.) Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.

(n.) The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.

(n.) The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.

(n.) The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.

Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice – where Mrs. Bennet says 'Netherfield Park is let a last.' And then...

In other words, we may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into adventures; force them to give up their meaning and fulfill their mysterious pu...

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold,...

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the proper...

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.

Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

Some stories always remain incomplete, until you do not read them complete with heart <3

It is not possible to express the most precious insights, To see all that craves to be seen, To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe, To learn all that needs to be learned, To live without...

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about som...

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.