The repository contains 13 quotes in the category “Literature.”

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Goethe
1749 — 1832

We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

Robert Wilensky

I have not personally read this book, because, as a journalist, I am too busy writing about it.

Dave Barry
1947 —     

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

President John Adams
1735 — 1826

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

A successful author is equally in danger of the dimunition of his fame whether he continues or ceases to write.

Dr. Johnson
1709 — 1784

Poetry is a cart for carrying ideas that are too lame to walk on their own.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 — 1900

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Eddie Izzard
1962 —     

More people write poetry than read it.

George Carlin
1937 — 2008

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Dr. Johnson
1709 — 1784

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation; the two keep pace in their downward tendency.

Goethe
1749 — 1832

Historian: An unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956