Books Quote by Heywood Broun

“The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern poets find…

— Honoré de Balzac

“Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.”

— Ben Jonson

“Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly…

— John Keats

“How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation. And…

— Thomas Hardy

“Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour.” {Source: A Green…

— Richard Mc Sweeney

“When we recall the great influence which Spenser's poetry has exerted on English poets who have lived and written since his day, we can…

— Owen Barfield

“I once two beautiful children playing together. One was a fair white child; the other was her slave, and also her sister. When I…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“Poetry is like an innocent young maiden who is extremely beautiful, and whom many other maidens, who are the other fields of knowledge, are…

— Cervantes

“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and authors, many…

— Karen Swallow Prior

True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered…

— Jane Porter

“most common people oft he market-place much prefer light literature to improving books. The problem is, that so many romances contain slanderous anecdotes about…

— Cao Xueqin

“Speaking of novels,’ I said, ‘you remember we decided once, you, your husband and I, that Proust’s rough masterpiece was a huge, ghoulish fairy…

— Vladimir Nabokov