Quotes about Literature

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science

#Literature, #Science

The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature...

#Literature

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

#Literature, #Work

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things...

#Humor, #Literature

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely...

#Literature

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression

#Humor, #Literature

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

#Life, #Literature, #Quotations

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature

#Literature, #Praise

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow...

#Literature

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

#Literature, #Society

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none...

#Autobiography, #Literature

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable...

#Literature