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Quotes About Literature

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Bertie, do you read Tennyson? Not if I can help.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P. G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists any good except me.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The object of all good literature is to purge the soul of its petty troubles.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Are there any books of that sort nowadays? The only ones I ever see mentioned in the papers are about married couples who find life grey, and can't stick each other at any price.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Vladimir specialized in grey studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happened till page 380, when the muzhik decided to commit suicide.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Much has been written on the subject of bed-books. The general consensus of opinion is that a gentle, slow-moving story makes the best opiate
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It was all Mrs. Waddington could do to refrain from hurling a bust of Edgar Allan Poe at her head.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I felt like Doctor Watson hearing Sherlock Holmes talking about the one hundred and forty-seven varieties of tobacco ash and the time it takes parsley to settle in the butter dish.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
He stood looking at the detective like Schopenhauer's butcher at the selected lamb.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
When I have a leisure moment, you will generally find me curled up with Spinoza's latest.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
After all, what could be pleasanter than a little literature in the small hours?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It's half the battle to get a line on the adored object's favourite literature. Mug it up and decant an excerpt and she's all over you. Next moment Freddie was hareing off for a Collected Works of Tennyson. Relieved, because, girls being ehat they are, it might easily have been Shelley or even Browning.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
He was, for a young man, extraordinarily obese. Already a second edition of his chin had been published
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Lady Kimbuck's eyes gleamed. She took the package eagerly. She never lost an opportunity of reading compromising letters. She enjoyed them as literature, and there was never any knowing when they might come in useful.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
In the spring, Jeeves, a livelier iris gleams upon the burnished dove.' 'So
~ P.G. Wodehouse
At present, he's got the idea that I'm a kind of ... Who was the chap who was such a devil with the other sex? ... Donald something. Donald Duck?' Don Juan. That's the fellow I mean
~ P.G. Wodehouse
of the afternoon Mr. Fitz-Wattle----
~ P.G. Wodehouse
P.G. Wodehouse
~ orchestrion
You can say anything you want, yessir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend...I bow to them...I love them, I cling to them, I run them down, I bite into them, I melt them down...I love words so much...The unexpected ones...The ones I wait for greedily or stalk until, suddenly, they drop...
~ Pablo Neruda
Book beautiful book, miniscule forest, leaf after leaf your paper smells of the elements. . . .
~ Pablo Neruda