Annie Besant Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.

  Annie Besant

  Taken, Law, Battle

• Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

  Annie Besant

  Literature, Language, Institutions

  Annie Besant (1915). “How India Wrought for Freedom: The Story of the National Congress Told from Official Records”

• In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hourglass - all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.

  Annie Besant

  Fashion, Art, Kings

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.332, Jazzybee Verlag

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