Quotes About Literature

Întotdeauna mi-a fost mai fric? de o pan?, de o sticlu?? cu cerneal? ÅŸi de o coal? de hîrtie decît de o sabie sau un pistol

I found out that with one hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses, if not a complete summary of all human knowledge, at least all that a man need really know.

Siempre tuve más miedo a una pluma y a un tintero, que a una espada o a una pistola.

I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shaksepeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important.

nous n'eûmes plus de repos que nous n'eussions retrouvé, dans les ouvrages contemporains, une trace quelconque de ces noms extraordinaires qui avaient fort

catalogue des livres que nous lûmes pour arriver à ce but remplirait un feuilleton tout entier, ce qui serait peut-être fort instructif, mais à coups sûr peu amusant pour nos lecteurs. Nous nous contenterons donc

Alexandre Dumas

ce qui frappe l'esprit capricieux du poète n'est pas toujours ce qui impressionne la masse des lecteurs.

Sans doute te demandes-tu si je ne suis pas aigri de n'en avoir écrit aucun. Eh bien, non! Mon talent a été de les bien lire et de les réunir. Notre monde manque plus de grands lecteurs que de grands écrivains, et composer une bibliothèque est un art qui tient de l'architecture.

César avait appris de l'existence à souffrir la vie et des romans à s'en échapper

Theatre is the most democratic side of literature.

literature became an arsenal where the poorest and the weakest could always find weapons to their hand.

The despotism of public opinion, the tyranny of majorities, the absence of intellectual freedom which seemed to him to degrade administration and bring statesmanship, learning, and literature to the level of the lowest, are no longer considered. The violence of party spirit has been mitigated, and the judgment of the wise is not subordinated to the prejudices of the ignorant. Other dangers have come.

Century also had shelves of obsolete printed books.

I don't want to appear disloyal to television, but I think reading will be good for you.

To read is to ……….indulge yourself in mental masturbation.

She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.

We do treat books surprisingly lightly in contemporary culture. We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.

As I turned the pages, I felt as if there were bees on my fingertips, for I had never felt so alive as when reading.

Read as many books as you can. Always choose courage

In my family, a book can be a life raft.

she opened a book and was therefore saved, discovering that a novel was as great an escape as any spell.

I knew I must do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.