All Time Famous Quotes of J.R.R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. J.R.R. […]
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Famous Quotes oIvan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collection titled A Sportsman’s Sketches, was a milestone of Russian realism. Ivan Turgenev Quotes 1. “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, […]
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All Time Famous Quotes of Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (UK:20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism. Born in Charleville, he started writing at a very young age and excelled as a student, but abandoned his formal education in […]
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All Time Famous Quotes of Aristophanes
Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BC),son of Philippus and Zenodora, of the deme Kydathenaion (Latin: Cydathenaeum),was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy.Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are […]
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All Time Famous Quotes of Aesop
Aesop (formerly rendered as Æsop) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop’s Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to […]
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All Time Famous Quotes of Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters’ psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. Stendhal Quotes 1. […]
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All Time Famous Quotes of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world’s pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work often cited as both the first modern novel and “the first great novel of world literature”. Miguel […]
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All Time Famous Quotes of Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. Marcel Proust Quotes 1. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” […]
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All Time Famous Quotes of Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, or simply Rumi, was a Persian 13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. Rumi’s works were written mostly in Persian, but occasionally he also used Turkish, Arabic and Greek in his verse. Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi Quotes 1. “Your task is […]
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All Time Famous Quotes of Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was an Italian writer and journalist. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy, the Cosmicomics collection of short stories, and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter’s night a traveler. Italo Calvino Quotes 1. “Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is […]
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