Quotes About Literature

But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.

I will not allow books to prove anything.

Me pregunto quién sería el primero en descubrir la eficacia de la poesía para acabar con el amor. ?Yo siempre he considerado que la poesía es el alimento del amor ?dijo Darcy. ?De un gran amor, sólido y fuerte, puede. Todo nutre a lo que ya es fuerte de por sí. Pero si es solo una inclinación ligera, sin ninguna base, un buen soneto la acabaría matando de hambre.

If a book is well written i would find it too short.

They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;...

Mrs. Norris hitched a breath and went on again.

on the portrayal of women in literature) Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!

If a book is well written i always find it too short

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading...

But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

I am no indiscriminate novel reader.

Prefieres leer a jugar? —La señorita Elizabeth Bennet es una gran lectora y no encuentra placer en nada más.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Qualquer pessoa, seja homem ou mulher, que não souber apreciar um bom romance deve ser insuportavelmente estúpido.

I will read you their names directly; here they are in my pocket-book. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will last us some time. ' '...but are they all horrid? Are you sure they are all horrid?' 'Yes, quite sure; for a particular friend of mine, a Miss Andrews, a sweet girl, one of the sweetest creatures in the world, has read every one of them.

She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.

Amaba el campo y los libros, y de semejantes aficiones había extraído sus principales goces.

I should indefinitely prefer a book.

It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey

La personne, homme ou femme, qui n'éprouve pas de plaisir à la lecture d'un bon roman ne peut qu'être d'une bêtise intolérable.