Beauty Quote by Richard Flanagan

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

— William H. Prescott

The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the…

— William H. Prescott

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the…

— John Sharp

“Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned…

— Ruth Reichl

“Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake. "Beauty by mistake"- the final phase in…

— Milan Kundera

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Beauty by mistake' -- the final phase in the history of beauty.”

— milan kundera

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

— Carlos Fuentes

For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales,…

— Angela Carter

“The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.”

— C.S. Lewis

“A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.”

— Julien Gracq

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You…

— Saint Augustine

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

— Barbara Tuchman