Books Quote by Frederick Rolfe Download Open image ““No. We never have read a line of Tolstoy. We studiously avoid doing so.”” — Frederick Rolfe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“...Tolstoy's characters seem to come forward to meet you, very conscious of the impression they are making on one another and on the reader.” — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“I reached over, opened it in the middle, and began reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. Nothing had changed. It was still a lousy book.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy is not?” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times.” — David Markson Copy Share Image
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed . . . Tolstoy,” he” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy’s interest in history began early in his life. It seems to have arisen not from interest in the past as such, but from… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“There are many premium writers, yes? Tolstoy, yes? He wrote War , and also Peace , which are both premium books.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“All His life long He had yearned to be giving. Now, under any circumstances, He always had something to give, ten words and a… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall. — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
Truth is tarter than taradiddles; and nothing is tarter, terser, than truth on the track of tired trash in a trance. — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth,… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult. — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
“Shall I tell you the difference between our Holy Father and ourselves? We see things from a single view-point. He sees things from several.… — Frederick Rolfe 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
