authors

James Dickey

James Dickey quote: “You are bound, my hunch is, to…”

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert quote: “You can calculate the worth of a…”

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Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber quote: “Writers should be read but not seen…”

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert quote: “Writing is a dog’s life, but the…”

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding quote: “Worth begets in base minds, envy; in…”

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Novelist quotes

Theodore Dreiser quote: “Words are but the vague shadows of…”

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Ellen Glasgow

Ellen Glasgow quote: “Women are one of the Almighty’s enigmas…”

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Ellen Glasgow

Ellen Glasgow quote: “Women like to sit down with trouble…”

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert quote: “Woman is a vulgar animal from whom…”

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding quote: “Without adversity a person hardly knows whether…”

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C. S. Forester

C. S. Forester quote: “With two people and luggage on board…”

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Arthur Helps

Arthur Helps quote: “Wise sayings often fall on barren ground…”

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James Dickey

James Dickey quote: “William Packard surely must be one of…”

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Food & drink quotes

Henry Fielding quote: “Wine is a turncoat; first a friend…”

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding quote: “When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages…”

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding quote: “When I’m not thanked at all, I’m…”

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C. S. Forester

C. S. Forester quote: “When I die there may be a…”

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding quote: “When children are doing nothing, they are…”

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding quote: “What’s vice today may be virtue, tomorrow…”

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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens quote: “When a man bleeds inwardly, it is…”

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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens quote: “Whatever I have tried to do in…”

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert quote: “What is the beautiful, if not the…”

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Lion Feuchtwanger

Lion Feuchtwanger quote: “What is a historian, anyway? It is…”

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Ellen Glasgow

Ellen Glasgow quote: “What happens is not as important as…”

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert quote: “What an elder sees sitting; the young…”

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Novelist quotes

William Faulkner quote: “Well, between Scotch and nothin’, I suppose…”

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Novelist quotes

William Golding quote: “What a man does defiles him, not…”

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers…”

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Education & learning quotes

William Faulkner quote: “We have to start teaching ourselves not…”

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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens quote: “We forge the chains we wear in…”

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