Quotes and Sayings About Literature

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
-- A. B. Yehoshua

#Gold #Literature #Intimate

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Baseball #Games #Literature

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
-- A. E. Housman

#Perception #Literature #Dull

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Pieces #Literature #Scripts

I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.
-- Abigail Reynolds

#Coffee #Optimism #Literature

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
-- Ada Leverson

#Real #Literature #Unexpected

It is always in season for old men to learn.
-- Aeschylus

#Education #Men #Literature

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
-- Aeschylus

#House #Literature #Vote

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
-- Aeschylus

#Envy #Literature #Admiration

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
-- Aeschylus

#Literature #Want #Ruins

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
-- Aeschylus

#Justice #Suffering #Literature

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
-- Aeschylus

#Dream #Men #Literature

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
-- Aeschylus

#Literature #Easier #Born

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
-- Aeschylus

#Wings #Evil #Literature

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
-- Aeschylus

#Power #Literature #Harsh

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
-- Aeschylus

#Children #Men #Literature

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
-- Aeschylus

#Literature #Speak #Forget

For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
-- Aeschylus

#Blow #Literature

Please all, and you will please none.
-- Aesop

#Business #Literature #Decision Making

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
-- Aesop

#Liars #Lying #Literature

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
-- Aesop

#Wisdom #Literature #Chickens

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
-- Aesop

#Hypnosis #Literature #Persuasion

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
-- Agatha Christie

#Love You #Literature #Pay

Very few of us are what we seem.
-- Agatha Christie

#Literature

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
-- Agatha Christie

#Principles #Literature #Sticks

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
-- Agatha Christie

#Literature #Eternity

These little grey cells. It is up to them.
-- Agatha Christie

#Cells #Literature #Littles

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
-- Agatha Christie

#Memorable #Literature

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
-- Agatha Christie

#Literature #Quiet #Murder

There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Appreciate #Literature #Discrimination