Books Quote by Amelia B. Edwards Download Open image “Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.” — Amelia B. Edwards ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Facts Fruit Leisure Literature
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship. — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Time augments rather than diminishes their everlasting novelty; and to our descendants of a thousand… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share
The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation. — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface. — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
“My heart beat violently. My forehead was bathed in a cold perspiration. I asked myself for the first time what it was that I… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
“The future - what should I do with the future? I felt like one who has climbed the brow of a great hill, and… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure,… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher. — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
