Books Quote by T. S. Eliot Download Open image “Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.” — T. S. Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Enough Literature Praise Respect
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles,… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books. — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
“Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with… — T. S. Eliot 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
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