Quotes About Literature

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

Books make up no small part of human happiness.

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

If people read poetry, they would be happier.

Quando penso a tutti i libri che mi restano da leggere ho la certezza di essere ancora felice":

The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Literature is the history of the soul.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.