literature
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done.”
“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”
“I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”
“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it.”
“Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.”
“Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.”
“Poetry, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.”
“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.”
“My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
“Books ... hold within them the gathered wisdom of humanity, the collected knowledge of the world's thinkers, the amusement and excitement built up by the imaginations of brilliant people.”
“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind.”
“In poetry and literature, I am among those who believe that too much is indispensable.”
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's.”
“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”
“Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.”