Critic Quotes

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
The more things change, the more they are the same.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
We can invent only with memory.
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
«first‹previous5556575859606162636465next›last»
Total Records : 2103

Related Books

Share to your friends..

Popular Topics

Attitude Death Inspirational Life Love Motivational Nature Positive