Top 16 Literary Masterpiece Quotes
#1. For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a dictionary is absolutely passive and may legitimately be read in an infinite number of ways.
W. H. Auden
#2. I never said that I was going to write a literary masterpiece. I just wanted to write something to make people feel something, hopefully in the nether regions.
Jennifer Lassalle Edwards
#4. We swayed, barely moving. I settled my cheek on Maxon's chest, he rested his chin on my head, and we spun to the music of the rain.
Kiera Cass
#5. Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me.
Bernard Cornwell
#6. Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans.
Jon Meacham
#7. You've been drinking," she said shortly, and then added qualitatively, "a little. You know I loathe the smell of it.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#8. It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay
Andrew Simms
#9. Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.
James Donald
#10. By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.
Leo Ornstein
#11. Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!
Margaret Thatcher
#12. If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?
Pope Pius XII
#13. Everybody can write a beginning and an ending, but to actually define that middle point where everything will go from professional to person, where everything will change, is always the hardest part, because it can very easily be too constructed, too artificial.
Tobias Lindholm
#14. After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.
Charlotte Gray
#15. The present work is, then, the masterpiece of one particular literary genre that flourished in the fourth century BC in Greece, that of the rhetorical manual, and it is a remarkable fact that it should have fallen to Aristotle to write it. It
Aristotle.
#16. While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw - that of outright unreadability.
Martin Amis
