Books Quote by Isaac D'Israeli

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

— E. M. Forster

“Man's life is brief and transitory, Literature endures forever”

— Rory Stewart

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

— Anonymous

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love,…

— Caroline Leavitt

“This closed-system idea of literary value, defined and defended by the kind of men who have always taken their power for granted and used…

— Jess Zimmerman

“A man listening to a story is in the company of the storyteller; even a man reading one shares this companionship. The reader of…

— Walter Benjamin

The greatest possesion of man is character

— Marcus Garvey

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

— Pliny the Younger

... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we…

— Marcel Proust

“The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily…

— John Dewey

Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the…

— Washington Irving