Literature Quotes

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Mother illuminated to me the kindliest light this world has ever known, which has endowed literature and the theatre with their greatest and richest themes: love, pity and humanity.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.