Literature Quotes

"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."

"I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language."

"Tennessee Williams moves my soul."

"The hero of my tale – whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is and will be beautiful – is Truth."

Leo Tolstoy

"The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force."

Simone Weil

"Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war."

"I sing of arms and the man."

Virgil

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Leo Tolstoy

"The crown of literature is poetry."

W. Somerset Maugham

“Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.”

“Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.”

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”

“Every man's memory is his private literature.”

"Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings... it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature."

Virginia Woolf

"Literature is my Utopia."

“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“I am an invisible man. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”

Ralph Ellison

“If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Leo Tolstoy

“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to.”

Charles Dickens

“To be, or not to be: that is the question.”

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”