Ifs Quote by Dorothy Parker

Do not be influenced by the importance of the writer, and whether his learning be great or small, but let the love of pure…

— Thomas a Kempis

“read Plato or Shakespeare or Dante as if we found their books in the street and had no idea who they were. I”

— Gloria Steinem

“But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to a few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest…

— Joseph Conrad

“What leads me to accredit the truth of what great Savonati has conveyed to us is the way in which he conscientiously tells us…

— Balzac

“Well, Montag, take my word for it, I've had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the…

— Ray Bradbury

“They accuse me-- Me --the present writer of The present poem--of--I know not what,-- A tendency to under-rate and scoff At human power and…

— George Gordon Byron

“Pierre asked his confessor: “Is it a sin to marry someone you don’t love?” Father Moineau was a square-faced, heavyset priest in his fifties.…

— Ken Follett

“You can quiz me on Petrarch, Medea, Shakespeare or Dante, I know them all, and I’m sorry, but they’ve all gone wrong. Dumb glorified…

— Charlotte Eriksson

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime…

— James Russell Lowell

The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing…

— Harold Bloom

“In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment…

— Alain de Botton

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares…

— Napoleon Bonaparte