Literary Man Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that… — Reuben Archer Torrey
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. — Aaron Copland
The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural than… — Amado Nervo
In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the… — Thomas Carlyle
The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule;… — Emile M. Cioran
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and… — Samuel Johnson
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain… — James Whistler
He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. — Hilaire Belloc
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary. — Joseph Campbell
These pages reproduce me very imperfectly, and there are many things in me of which I find no trace in them.I suppose it is because,… — Unknown Author

Who Wrote These Literary Man Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 11 Literary Man Quotes as follows: