Quotes of: English-literature Keyword

Caravaggio: You're in love with him, aren't you? Your poor patient. You think he's a saint because of the way he looks? I don't think he is. Hana: I'm not in love with him. I'm in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.

The English Patient

Katharine Clifton: I'm impressed you can sew. Almásy: Good. Katharine Clifton: You sew very badly. Almásy: Well, you don't sew at all. Katharine Clifton: A woman should never learn to sew, and if she can she shouldn't admit to it.

The English Patient

Katharine Clifton: D'you not come in? Almásy: No. I should go home. Katharine Clifton: Will you please come in? Almásy: Mrs. Clifton... Katharine Clifton: [scowls] Don't. Almásy: I believe you still have my book.

The English Patient

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets —no, they're little gifts, conta...

Philip Roth

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

Christian Louboutin

I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.

Zaha Hadid

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

Henry Miller

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

Peter Bichsel

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

Samuel Lover

The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

Lucille Clifton

Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

Lemony Snicket

Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.

Chloe Thurlow

Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food.

Gretchen Rubin

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

John Updike

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

Basmah bint Saud

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Douglas Sirk

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

Gilbert Murray

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Ravi Shankar

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Ellen Glasgow