Literature Quotes

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction." "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." "There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness" "The course of true love never did run smooth. " "Brevity is the soul of wit. " "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. " "Let us read and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world" "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." "Et tu, Brute?" "Hell is empty and all the devils are here." "Now is the winter of our discontent." "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." "I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal" "Poetry is an act of peace" "To be, or not to be: that is the question." "A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!" "Read what you love until you love to read" "To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country." "You can make anything by writing." "Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable."