Quotes on Literature

Each person has a literature inside them.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Prosperity is full of friends.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's "too soft" or "too hard," about 999 would say "too hard."