Quotes About Literature

El lector debe prepararse para asistir a las más siniestras escenas.

Why don't we go to the police?" "And say what? That Milady and Rochefort, Cardinal Richelieu's agents, have stolen from us a chapter of The Three Musketeers and a book for summoning Lucifer? That the devil has fallen in love with me and been incarnated as a twenty-year-old girl who now acts as my bodyguard? What would you do if you were Inspector Maigret and I came and told you all that.

O tal vez también lo fuiste algún tiempo, antes de que nuestra Troya ardiera. Cuando me susurrabas declinaciones griegas y latinas mientras te esforzabas en que descifrase a Homero y Virgilio: «Háblame, oh, musa, del hombre de innumerables astucias que por mucho tiempo anduvo errante»Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Tal vez su propia soltería la hace inmune al desaliento: a olvidar sueños aún vivos en la ceniza, conservados en soledad y lecturas como pétalos secos entre páginas de un libro.

One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black...

Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else—pictures, furniture, china. I think you understand what it is to be a passionate collector of books…

You can make a text mean anything, especially if it's old and full of ambiguities.

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

A good book is like a good friend, do you know, Lacey? One you can turn to when the night is cold and you are lonely. And there is old Herodotus, standing ready to regale me with tales of his travels.

Fletcher shrugged. "Science and mathematics are all the rage, you know. But who has time for good old Horace?

That line in Shakespeare, you know: 'there was a star danced, and under that was I born,' " she'd once told him. "That's the only Shakespeare I remember from school.

The Good Book" - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

The Good Book" - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

Then the curtain fell with a pudic rapidity.

When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.

The only wards I ever knew happen to be fictitious characters.

An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Entre paréntesis te contaré que en cierta ocasión una señorita me preguntó, para un periódico, si en lo que escribo hay algún mensaje. Yo le contesté que sí, que en todo lo que escribo hago llamados a la rebelión y a la revolución, pero desgraciadamente en una forma tan sutil que por lo general mis lectores se vuelven reaccionarios).

Quiero decir que me violaron y me arrojaron bajo un puente... -¡Parece de novela! -suspiró Sui. -Sí, muchacha. Todo lo que es verdadero parece de <>, aun cuando la novela sólo relata hechos ficticios

Quiero decir que me violaron y me arrojaron bajo un puente... -¡Parece de novela! -suspiró Sui. -Sí, muchacha. Todo lo que es verdadero parece de "novela", aun cuando la novela sólo relata hechos ficticios

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.