Century Quote by Fannie Hurst

“This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirrour of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following…

— Samuel Johnson

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the…

— Jane Austen

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

— Thomas Carlyle

Shakespeare is an intellectual miracle.

— Thomas Chalmers

“every psychic defence mechanism known to the modern psychologist makes its appearance somewhere in Shakespeare.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

— Kabir

“He pointed to the board where the word 'alliteration' had been written in handwriting far better than mine, which on good days looks like…

— Robert Wilder

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“. . . the literature of imaginatiion, even when tragic, is reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but because it…

— Ursula Le Guin

Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.

— Alan Arkin

Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.

— Suzy Kassem