Logo
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cur

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. – Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, 1842

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Literature
category

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! – James Russell Lowell

Category:
Literature

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain

Category:
Literature

To literature belongs the mighty privilege of embalming, for all ages, the departed kings of intellect. There they repose within the eternal pyramids of their fame. – Robert Aris Willmott, “Glimpses of the Pageant of Literature,” c.1844

Category:
Literature

The extent of a palace is measured from east to west, or from north to south; but that of a literary work, from the earth to heaven; so that there may be found as much range and power of mind in a few pages… as in a whole epic poem. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

Category:
Literature

Random Quotes

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Truth

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium. – Dalai Lama

Category:
Faith

The only place Ive felt was really my home is my cabin up north. Theres something in the water there that connects me to that place. Theres also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that Ive never been able to shake. – Jessica Lange

Category:
Home

There is something about the presence of a cat… that seems to take the bite out of being alone. – Louis J. Camuti

Category:
Cats