Books Quote by Charles Nodier Download Open image “Literature is the expression of society.” — Charles Nodier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Community Depression Expression Literature
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
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 should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society. — Guo Moruo Copy Share Image
Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods. — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
“In another world,' he said, lowering his voice; I remember... was it not in another world, in a life which was not in thrall… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
“Scarcely has night arrived to undeceive, unfurling her wings of crepe (wings drained even of the glimmer just now dying in the tree-tops); scarcely has the last glint still dancing on the burnished metal heights of the tall towers ceased to fade, like a still glowing coal in a spent brazier, which whitens gradually beneath the ashes, and soon is… — Charles Nodier Copy Share
To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool. — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
“Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
“A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
“It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on… — Charles Nodier 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
