Bible Quote by George Saintsbury Download Open image “The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.” — George Saintsbury ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bible Book Books History Irony
“When history seems to offer no sanctuary for values (when history is assailed by wars and inhuman or immoral public actions), literature can provide… — Beatriz Sarlo Copy Share Image
“most historical relationships are ironical in character, or, to put it differently, that the course of history has little to do with the intrinsic… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God. — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.” — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. — George Saintsbury 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
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose, Sergeant,’ Anthony Payne replied. ‘That is from The Merchant of Venice, but it holds great truth.” — Michael Arnold Copy Share Image
When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell… — Lee Greenwood Copy Share Image
“Scripture also teaches that human beings are morally responsible creatures” — Robert A. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: "I had enjoyed much peace… — Stephen Taylor Copy Share Image
O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture… — Walsham How Copy Share Image
Every plant which my heavenly father has not planted with be uprooted — Jesus Christ Copy Share Image
Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
