Quotes About Literature

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

Les gouvernements suspectent la littérature parce qu'elle est une force qui leur échappe.

Le había quedado, de los tiempos en los que soñaba con dedicarse a la literatura y se juntaba con poetas, una desesperación universal.

LA FAUTE DE L'ABBE MOURET' was, with respect to the date of publication, the fourth volume of M. Zola's 'Rougon-Macquart' series; but in the amended and final scheme of that great literary undertaking, it occupies the ninth place.

that they were often as thrilled by trash as by an acknowledged masterpiece (32)

Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that 'man was made to reason, woman to feel.' Perhaps Austen was tired of reading passages in conduct books suggesting that young women were innately sensitive, quivering, emotional messes.

Permítame que me tome la libertad de preguntarle cómo se las arregla para vivir sin libros.

Take my books away, and I should be desperate!

You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into...it is as much as you can expect from a poor man's daughter.

he is continually among his books, since he has no other society.

And once, Hareton, I came upon a secret stock in your room... some Latin and Greek, and some tales and poetry... But I've most of them written on my brain and printed in my heart, and you cannot deprive me of those!

Now here is the babyish trash.

No books!' I exclaimed. 'How do you contrive to live here without them? if I may take the liberty to inquire. Though provided with a large library, I'm frequently very dull at the Grange; take my books away, and I should be desperate!

Como muchos después de ella, ante la incomodidad generada por Cumbres borrascosas, optó por refugiarse en el mito.

En lugar de reconocer la sofisticación intelectual de Emily, Charlotte la presentaba como una sencilla chica de campo, nada «culta», que había acabado escribiendo un libro desconcertante, más por ingenua que por versada.

I certainly esteem myself a steady, reasonable kind of body ... not exactly from living among the hills, and seeing one set of faces, and one series of actions, from year's end to year's end: but I have undergone sharp discipline which has taught me wisdom; and then, I have read more than you would fancy.

A precious, mouldering pleasure 'tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old

There is nothing more fugal than a book to take you to different lands

Now, when I read, I read not, For interrupting tears Obliterate the etchings Too costly for repairs.

Publication - is the Auction / Of the Mind of Man

I am glad you have an hour for books, those enthralling friends, the immortalities...

When I lost the use of my Eyes it was a comfort to think there were so few real books that I could easily find some one to read me all of them.

There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it.

But a book is only the heart's portrait-every page a pulse