“The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all.” InspirationalArtBeautifulLiteratureLordDevilAngelMythRevolutionaryImmortal Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark, but with the substance of their records of our Lord's life. They did not have to respect their actual words, as they would if they were transcribing the works of Thucydides or Plato.” PeopleIfsLiteratureLordRecordsConcernedMarkReputationSubstancePlatoOur LordMatthewTranscribing Author:Frederic G. Kenyon
“But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them, With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.” PeopleEnoughLiteratureResultsLordFiguresSpeechGoldSoldierDearFancyTestamentPurpleOld TestamentDressed UpByronFigures Of SpeechDear Me Book:The primrose path Source: The primrose path
“History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation." In my day, dissertations were still written by hand, or drummed out with a typewriter. In the past, you had to round up the literature, find the books and find the passages. Nowadays you click on Wikipedia or Google and you have everything you need. This probably makes it more difficult to resist temptation.” NeedsStillsBookShowsHandsPastLiteratureDifficultPrayerLordWrittenRoundsTemptationPassagesGoogleClicksTypewritersWikipediaSupplicationDissertation Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.” GovernmentLiteratureDifferencesPrayerLordIndependenceJournalismAddressesRegulationDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceCabbageGovernment RegulationGettysburgGettysburg Address Author:Oscar Wilde