Explore Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings
Welcome to the biggest collection of quotations, proverbs and sayings! If you are looking for a specific quotation, proverb or saying, check our universal database. We have collected over 150,000 inspirational quotations, funny quotations, movie quotations, famous proverbs and cute sayings that we would like to share with you. Find quotations, proverbs and sayings for any occasion and view them all for free.
Browse quotations by author, topic or keyword.
Browse Topics:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the topics)
Letter "L" » Literature
(Click a letter to view the topics)
«Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.»
Author: Herbert Gold
| About:
Careers,
Literature,
Writers
| Keywords:
boils, careers, extract, extracted, extracting, madcap, nerves, nightmares, the edge, Wringing, wrings, wring from
«Literature bores me, especially great literature»
«Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
agent, basic, block, bridge, building block, bulwark, clinic, clinics, complement, complemented, complements, cultural, dammed, dams, dam up, democratization, development, factories, General A, Girls, human development, human health, Human potential, human right, identity, investments, in general, literacy, modern society, national, nutrition, platform, platforms, promotion, promotions, roads, The Platform, tool, vehicle
«Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. Do y»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Life,
Literature
| Keywords:
African, dickens, dweller, dwellers, Falstaff, for example, ghetto, ghettos, largeness, The characters, Turgenev
«Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely»
«Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Criticism,
Literature,
Writers
| Keywords:
art critic, dimensions, extend, Literary Art, literary critic, longs
«Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Literature,
Reality
| Keywords:
adds, competencies, competency, daily, describe, deserting, deserts, enriches, enriching, irrigate, irrigates, literature, provides, requires, Through the Desert
«Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
anticipates, Balzac, century, copy, invention, largely, literature, Moulds, nineteenth, nineteenth century
«Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
barber, barbered, Barbers, barber chair, buttocks, chair, fits
«Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.»
Get access to over 800,000 college papers on the most popular topics for only $14.95/month.
Buy essay, term paper or research paper on the specific topic at a cheap price and get a discount!
Buy essay, term paper or research paper on the specific topic at a cheap price and get a discount!
