Books Quote by John Morley Download Open image “Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.” — John Morley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Dangerous Literature Most Seductive
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Those professions which are not so much involved in life itself as concerned with abstract truths are the most dangerous for the young man… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...” — John Julius Norwich Copy Share Image
“Those professions which are not so much involved in life itself as concerned with abstract truths are the most dangerous for the young man… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic. — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous. — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort… — Margaret Mazzantini Copy Share Image
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way. — John Morley Copy Share Image
Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter… — John Morley Copy Share Image
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from… — John Morley Copy Share Image
“It is worth while to take the pains to find out the best way of doing a given task,…'to scorn delight and live laborious… — John Morley Copy Share Image
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to… — John Morley 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
