Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
If you liked a book, don't meet the author
I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
God is only a great imaginative experience.
Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
In Literature, only trouble is interesting.
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
I believe all literature started as gossip.
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
literature is the record of our discontent.
I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
The gods are fugitive guests of literature.
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
Listening to people keeps them entertained.
All great art and literature is propaganda.
Literature is the voice of the human heart.
In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
Labor diligently to increase your property.
In true prose everything must be underlined.
Literature is the thought of thinking souls.
Your reader is at least as bright as you are
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
In every parting there is an image of death.
Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.
Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.