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
