| Author |
Quotes |
| Ford Madox Ford | Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. |
| Frank Moore Colby | One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. |
| G K Chesterton | Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. |
| G K Chesterton | Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. |
| G K Chesterton | A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. |
| Gail Godwin | You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. |
| Gao Xingjian | In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write, |
| George Age | Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. |
| Georges Simenon | Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | Poetry is life distilled. |
| H L Mencken | A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation. |
| Hari Dass Baba | You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill. |
| Hector Louis Berlioz | Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. |
| Helen Keller | Literature is my utopia. |
| Henry Fielding | Republic of letters. |
| Herman Melville | For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. |
| Hindu Spiritual | If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds. - Bhagavad Gita. |
| Homer | At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel;Achilles absent was Achilles still:Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. - Iliad, The. |
| Howard Crosby | A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation. |
| Hughes Mearns | As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away. - The Psychoed. |
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