Quotes About Literature

To those great geniuses now in petticoats, who shall write novels for the beloved reader's children, these men and things will be as much legend and history as Nineveh, or Coeur de Lion, or Jack Sheppard.

For novelists have the privilege of knowing everything.

The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep.

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.

This was such bad writing that it was good.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins.

Thou mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

William Shakespeare

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in't.

William Shakespeare

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

I have drunk and seen the spider.

They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

That he's mad, 'tis true, 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis, 'tis true —a foolish figure

Come and take choice of all my library and so beguile thy sorrow.

William Shakespeare

Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*

William Shakespeare

I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables.

I'll call for pen and ink and write my mind