Quotes About Unliterary

#1. The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers "I've read it already" to be a conclusive argument against reading a work ... Those read great works,on the other hand will read the same work ten, twenty or thirty times during the course of there life.

C.S. Lewis

#2. I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'

Steven Heighton

#3. Leave a chimney-sweep alone when you see him, Chiltern. Should he run against you, then remember that it is one of the necessary penalties of clean linen that it is apt to be soiled.

Anthony Trollope

#4. The body - the cage - is everything of the most respectable - but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.

Agatha Christie

#5. One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

David Stockman

#6. In the end, they could think of no better solution than to put a bullet between his eyes, so they could go about their task in peace.

Jonas Jonasson

#7. Alcohol cannot create an abuser, and sobriety cannot cure one. The only way a man can overcome his abusiveness is by dealing with his abusiveness. And you are not "enabling" your partner to mistreat you; he is entirely responsible for his own actions.

Lundy Bancroft

#8. To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

Aeschylus

#9. We can do the work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Any fool knew that arguing with a troll was pointless.

April Adams

#11. True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

Miguel De Cervantes