Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.
Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.
I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.
Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.
I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?
Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.
Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.
It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.