Quotations by Charlotte Brontë

CHARLOTTE BRONTË (1816—1855) WAS A FAMOUS ENGLISH WOMEN NOVELIST AND POET OF THE VICTORIAN ERA. “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” ~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre “The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful...

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Quotations by Anthony Burgess

ANTHONY BURGESS (1917- 1993) WAS ONE OF THE LEADING BRITISH ACADEMICS AND MOST VENERATED AND PROLIFIC LITERARY FIGURES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. “Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?” ~Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962) “The East would always...

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Quotations by Maxim Gorky

MAXIM GORKY (1868-1936), A PROMINENT TWENTIETH CENTURY RUSSIAN WRITER. “The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.” ~ Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts “Everybody, my friend, everybody...

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Quotations by Fyodor Dostoevsky

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1821-1881) WAS A RUSSIAN NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, ESSAYIST, AND PHILOSOPHER. “Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas...

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Quotations by Jack London

JACK LONDON (1876 - 1916), A PROMINENT AMERICAN NOVELIST AND JOURNALIST WHO IS BEST KNOWN FOR "CALL OF THE WILD” (1903) AND “THE SEA WOLF” (1904). “I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would...

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