Quotes about Literature
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
- John Milton
He who kills a person kills a reasonable creature, but he who kills a good book destroys reason itself.
- John Milton
I soon developed myopia and a firm belief that people in books were not only more interesting but more real than people outside of books.
- Gloria Steinem
Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.
- Gordon Hinckley
It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and mingle with the great of the earth, counsel with the wise of all time, look into the unlived days with prophets...To become acquainted with real nobility as it walks the pages of history and science and literature is to strengthen character and develop life in its finer meanings.
- Gordon Hinckley
It is both relaxing and invigorating to ... set aside the worries of life, [and] seek the company of a friendly book...
- Gordon Hinckley
The New Testament, that is, was made by the Church; the Church was not made by the New Testament. That is why, speaking generally, Catholics differ from Protestants in the importance given to the authority of the Bible on the one hand, and to the authority of the Church on the other. Therefore, Catholics more than Protestants would tend to say that the community has authority over its normative literature.
- James Carroll
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A scholar's pen is more valuable than a warrior's sword.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
- Henry Ward Beecher
To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
- Samuel Johnson