Littles Quotes - Page 100
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.110
You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.
Walter B. Pitkin (1931). “How We Learn: A Book for Young People with Emphasis Upon the Art of Efficient Reading”
We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.33, Vintage
Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.71, Hamilton Books
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.18, HarperCollins
Van Wyck Brooks (1944). “Literature in New England: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865. New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915”, New York Garden City [1944]
Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.130, Bantam