Quotes on “Literature” 14 Best Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status in English.

Literature Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status

 

Literature — the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

John, Lord Morley (1838-1923) English writer, Liberal politician

 

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself from the wrongs of his condition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher

 

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

W. R. Inge (1860-1954) Dean of St. Paul’s, London

 

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) American author

 

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet

 

The cultivation of literary pursuits forms the basis of all sciences, and in their perfection consist the reputation and prosperity of kingdoms.

Marques de Pombal (1699-1782) Portuguese statesman

 

Literature is always a good card to play for Honours. It makes people think that Cabinet ministers are educated.

Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) British novelist

 

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) American novelist

 

All that is literature seeks to communicate power: all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) English author

 

Literature … is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) German author, critic

 

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American author

 

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author’s soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

Robert Benctilmey (1889-1945) American humorous writer

 

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author

 

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman

 

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