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An illustration of Cardinal Richelieu holding a sword, by H. A. Ogden, 1892, from The Works of Edward Bulwer Lytton "The pen is mightier than the sword" is an expression indicating that the written word is more effective than violence as a means of social or political change.
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10. “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” 11. “Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on – that is, badly.”
Pages in category "Quotations from literature" The following 191 pages are in this category, out of 191 total. ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts ...
For moments when you need an extra boost of motivation, these quotes about strength from leaders like Winston Churchill to Mahatma Gandhi will motivate you to push through the toughest of times ...
Longinus critically applauds and condemns certain literary works as examples of good or bad styles of writing. [6] Longinus ultimately promotes an "elevation of style" [6] and an essence of "simplicity". [9] To quote this famous author, "the first and most important source of sublimity [is] the power of forming great conceptions."
Pinter's Nobel Lecture has been the source of much discussion. [1] [2] In an article published in The Chronicle of Higher Education on 11 November 2005, entitled "Pinter's Plays, Pinter's Politics," Middlebury College English professor Jay Parini observes that "In the weeks that have passed since Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize in Literature, there has been incessant chatter on both sides of ...
The Yale Book of Quotations is a quotations collection focusing on modern and American quotations. Edited by Fred R. Shapiro, it was published by Yale University Press in 2006 with a foreword by Joseph Epstein, ISBN 978-0-300-10798-2.