Literary Men Quotes
- There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. — Thomas Carlyle
- All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. — John Cheever
- Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood. — John Keats
- One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that… — James Payn
- Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. — Samuel Johnson
- Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. — Voltaire
- it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. — Muriel Spark