Betray Quote by Simone Weil

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

— Voltaire

“The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds.”

— Voltaire

“These studies are the result of my attempt to extract the essence of literature. Literature is either the essential or nothing. I believe that…

— Georges Bataille

“The object of all good literature is to purge the soul of its petty troubles.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of intense communication.”

— Georges Bataille

As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and…

— H. L. Mencken

Reverence is fatal to literature.

— E. M. Forster

“In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind…

— G.K. Chesterton

“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

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

— Andre Gide