{"id":3670,"date":"2015-08-14T09:07:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T16:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2015-08-14T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T16:23:21","slug":"40-great-quotes-from-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/40-great-quotes-from-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Great Quotes from Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"40Need some advice or perspective? \u00a0Here are 40 great quotes from literature that may help. \u00a0These are some of our favorites from our words of wisdom quote collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. The mind has many watchdogs; sometimes they bark unnecessarily, but a wise man never ignores their warning.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0A Fall of Moondust<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Arthur C. Clarke<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Words spoken cannot be recalled.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0He Knew He Was Right<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Anthony Trollope<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0A Clash of Kings<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George R. R. Martin<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Fair speech may hide a foul heart.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Two Towers<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0J. R. R. Tolkien<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. It is always the unusual which alarms.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Forsyte Saga<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0John Galsworthy<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. It is not violence that best overcomes hate-nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Jane Eyre<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charlotte Bronte<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Count Alarcos: A Tragedy<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Benjamin Disraeli<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Hamlet, Prince of Denmark<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Shakespeare<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. “Words,” said the host, at length, “is worse’n bullets. You never know what they’ll hit.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Night Horseman<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Max Brand<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0A Game of Thrones<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George R. R. Martin<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. “When you’ve learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn’t, you’ve got wisdom and understanding.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Anne of the Island<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. The fool wonders, the wise man asks.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Count Alarcos: A Tragedy<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Benjamin Disraeli<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. “All things are ready, if our minds be so.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Henry V<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Shakespeare
    \n\"all
    \n<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. “No one is ever too old to do a foolish thing.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Uncle Silas<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0J. Sheridan Le Fanu<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. “Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Pygmalion<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George Bernard Shaw<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Shirley<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charlotte Bronte<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. “Just breathing isn’t living!”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Pollyanna<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Eleanor H. Porter<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, As self-neglecting.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Henry V<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Shakespeare<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. The mind is its own place, and in it self
    \nCan make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0    Paradise Lost<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0John Milton<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Sybil<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Benjamin Disraeli<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. “Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Anne of Green Gables<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/a>\"Trying<\/li>\n
  22. “Nobody can spoil a life, my dear. That’s nonsense. Things happen, but we bob up.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Forsyte Saga<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0John Galsworthy<\/a><\/li>\n
  23. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0David Copperfield<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/a><\/li>\n
  24. “Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated? “<\/b>\u00a0~ The Land of Mist<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/li>\n
  25. The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Awakening<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Kate Chopin<\/a>\"Kate<\/li>\n
  26. You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Zuleika Dobson<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Max Beerbohm<\/a><\/li>\n
  27. Unwelcome truths are not popular.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Valley of Fear<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/li>\n
  28. “And, above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Small House at Allington<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Anthony Trollope<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Persuasion<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Jane Austen<\/a><\/li>\n
  30. Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Daniel Deronda<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George Eliot<\/a><\/li>\n
  31. “The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Sign of the Four<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/li>\n
  32. She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Howards End<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0E. M. Forster<\/a>\"Expense<\/li>\n
  33. He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Way of All Flesh<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Samuel Butler<\/a><\/li>\n
  34. Ignorance is the parent of fear.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Moby Dick<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Herman Melville<\/a><\/li>\n
  35. “Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit – the habit of nine-tenths of the world – of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Dombey and Son<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/a><\/li>\n
  36. A man will tell you that he has worked in a mine for forty years unhurt by an accident as a reason why he should apprehend no danger, though the roof is beginning to sink.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Silas Marner<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George Eliot<\/a><\/li>\n
  37. The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Makepeace Thackeray<\/a><\/li>\n
  38. Old habit of mind is one of the toughest things to get away from in the world. It transmits itself like physical form and feature.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Mark Twain<\/a><\/li>\n
  39. “We learn from failure, not from success!”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Dracula<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Bram Stoker<\/a><\/li>\n
  40. Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Jane Eyre<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charlotte Bronte
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