Top 5 The Decline Of Literature Quotes
#2. Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.
Maria Edgeworth
#3. Though it's true that (dictionary-maker Samuel) Johnson sometimes seem to feel that the language was in decline, he didn't rail against it with (Jonathan) Swift's anger. Instead, he hoped the example of his dictionary would temper that change by providing a distinguished literary example
Robert Lane Greene
#4. I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.
Mark Twain
#5. The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
