Books Quote by Alan Bennett

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

— Alan Bennett

“The author of what I describe is not myself, it is the Other. First of all it is you, it is the woman, it…

— Hélène Cixous

“There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.”

— William Pitt

The Queen is above it all

— Fabio Capello

God, eldest of Poets.

— William Watson

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush

“A queen must listen to all,” she reminded him. “The highborn and the low, the strong and the weak, the noble and the venal.…

— George R.R. Martin

“Hmm,' said the King. 'I must write that down in my book of aphorisms. I don't know if it is deep, but it sounds…

— Stephen Mitchell

“Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the…

— Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Literature is higher than politics, if not actually above politics.

— Gao Xingjian

“Standing before her king like the royalty she was. My queen of the dark”

— Tillie Cole

“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only…

— William Butler Yeats