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I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford. | Edward F. Halifax | 1881-1959, British Conservative Statesman
In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet
Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet
Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book. | Edward Gibbon | 1737-1794, British Historian
Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. | Edward M. Forster | 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. | Edward M. Forster | 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. | Edward Young | 1683-1765, British Poet, Dramatist
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. | Edwin Hubbel Chapin | 1814-1880, American Author, Clergyman
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. | Edwin P. Whipple | 1819-1886, American Essayist
It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney? | Eileen Aitkins | 1934-, British Stage Screen Actor
@Grammar is the grave of letters. | Elbert Hubbard | 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good. | Elbert Hubbard | 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with. | Eleanor Holmes Norton |
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. | Eleanor Roosevelt | 1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. | Elias Canetti | 1905-, Austrian Novelist, Philosopher
Books succeed, and lives fail. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 1806-1861, British Poet
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. | Elizabeth Drew | 1887-1965, Anglo-American Author, Critic
The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good! | Elizabeth Wordsworth |
Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. | Elliot Paul |
The living language is like a cow-path: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay | Elwyn B(rooks) White (1899-1985, | American Author, Editor
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. | Elwyn) B(rooks) White (1899-1985, American Author, Editor |
Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others. | English Proverb | Sayings of British Origin
Oh, that one could learn to learn in time! | Enrique Solari |
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. | Epictetus | 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. | Epictetus | 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something. | Eric Jensen |
Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something. | Ernest Hemingway | 1898-1961, American Writer
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. | Ernest Hemingway | 1898-1961, American Writer
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. | Ernest Hemingway | 1898-1961, American Writer
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. | Ernst Fischer | 1899-1972, Austrian Editor, Poet, Critic
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. | Eugene S. Wilson |
The language of truth is simple. | Euripides | BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
Literature is news that stays news. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
There is no more beautiful life than that of a student. | F. Albrecht |
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas. | Ferdinand De Saussure | 1857-1913, Swiss Linguist
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent. | Ferdinand De Saussure | 1857-1913, Swiss Linguist
Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | Finley Peter Dunne | 1867-1936, American Journalist, Humorist
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. | Ford Madox Ford | 1873-1939, British Novelist
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