Literature Quotes

"In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z." "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." "In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them." "Classic: a book which people praise and don't read." "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales" "Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow." "My only love sprung from my only hate " "Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe " "Fair is foul, and foul is fair " "Though she be but little, she is fierce " "There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery" "A book is a dream that you hold in your hand." "Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent." "Sleep is good and books are better" "The story so far In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." "Words are like leaves and where they most abound much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found" "I read, and I've always kept reading. It's a way to understand the world." "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for" "A poet can survive everything but a misprint." "Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else"