George Henry Lewes Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.

  George Henry Lewes

  Exercise, Past, Race

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

• Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

  George Henry Lewes

  Literature, World, Tidy

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

• It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Views, Doe

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

• Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

  George Henry Lewes

  Hygiene, Progress, Literature

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

• The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

  George Henry Lewes

  Hygiene, Literature, Objects

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

• All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

  George Henry Lewes

  Hands, Literature, May

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

• Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

  George Henry Lewes

  Real, Literature, Bases

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

• All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

  George Henry Lewes

  Literature, Insight, Good Literature

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

• It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Expression, Done

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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