Vernacular Literature Quotes

#1. Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. Who says I'm vain?" "The comparison: your friend isn't. But I'm sorry for her, vanity is a resource. If you're vain you pay attention to yourself and your affairs.

Elena Ferrante

#3. But out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. I love all of Albert Brooks' work from 'Defending Your Life' back to his first film, 'Real Life', but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work.

Douglas Wood

#5. Pinch me, please. Is any of this real?" Rachel whispered as she looked into Nick's eyes.

"This place is very real. You're the dream," Nick answered as he kissed her deeply.

Kevin Kwan

#6. In the fourteenth century, Italian literature was, by requirement, divided into two categories: tragedy, representing high literature, was written in formal Italian; comedy, representing low literature, was written in the vernacular and geared toward the general population.

Dan Brown

#7. After the engine had faded away she did not dismount, but sat for a few minutes with her face in her hands, almost as if she was praying. If it was a prayer she was muttering, however, it was one full of all the swear words that Not-Triss had ever heard, and quite a few she had not.

Frances Hardinge

#8. Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence?

Kim Harrison

#9. He who loves fame considers another man's activity to be his own good; and he who loves pleasure, his own sensations; but he who has understanding, considers his own acts to be his own good. It

Marcus Aurelius

#10. House-elves come with big old manors and castles and places like that;

J.K. Rowling