Quotes About Literature

Something about the beauty of the library and how many books there were made me feel really eager to read, and I couldn't wait to get some free time so I could go back there and explore.

There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

The monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

Worthy books are not companions - they are solitudes: we lose ourselves in them and all our cares

If a book is not worth reading twice, it is not worth reading once.

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, and cities have been decayed and demolished?

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested.

Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few books to be read wholly, and with diligence and attraction.

Some books are to be tasted (0-2), others to be swallowed (3), and some few to be chewed and digested(4-5); that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested

Verona has long haunted the English imagination.

I'm told that when Auden died, they found his Oxford all but clawed to pieces. That is the way a poet and his dictionary should come out.

Marx's work has often been dismissed as 'crude dogma', usually by people who give no evidence of having read him.

Dear Reader, may God protect you from bad books, police and nagging, moon-faced, fair-haired women.

Una mujer mediocre es como un libro malo: hacen dudar de la literatura entera, de lo femenino universal

What can I do, I like Balzac better than Dickens, forgive me.

Literature is the fragment of fragments', wrote Goethe in Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering, the great sad novel of his old age:

Literature is the fragment of fragments', wrote Goethe in Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering, the great sad novel of his old age: 'the least part of all that ever happened and was spoken was written down, and of what was written only the least part has survived . . .'.

Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination.