Literature is a luxury;
fiction is a necessity.
(G. K. Chesterton: The Defendant.)
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Literature is a luxury;
fiction is a necessity.
(G. K. Chesterton: The Defendant.)
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
(Flaubert.)
Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.
(Agathon: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.)
There are no bad books,
any more than there are ugly women.
(Anatole France.)
Literature is news that stays news.
(Ezra Pound: ABC of Reading.)
Books do not teach the use of books.
(Anonymous.)
Never disregard a book
because the author of it is a foolish fellow.
(Lord Melbourne.)
They do most by books,
who could much without them.
(Thomas Browne: Christian Morals.)
Before using a fine word, make a place for it!
(Joubert: Pensées.)
The coldest word was once
a glowing new metaphor.
(Carlyle: Past and Present.)