Literary Analysis Quotes

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks. " "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say" "The critic who doesn't make out a case is only an intelligent reader for himself; he is not a critic" "Nowhere so busy a man as he there n'as" "The original is unfaithful to the translation" "The best stories don't come from "good versus bad" but "bad versus worse." "You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith." "It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times" "A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules or fits certain definitions." "A heap of broken images, where the sun beats" "I draw from the absurd three consequences"