Literature Quotes

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — [‘Treason!’ cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

Words are memes that can be pronounced.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.