Best opinion & novel Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.”

Ifs Years States Stories Opinion Novel Ignorance Horse Harder Mysterious Observation Progressive

Book:A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck

Source: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck

“The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no means novel; it has long been one of the commonplaces of popular opinion.”

Mean Long Social Opinion Class Novel Movement Evolution Office Leisure Propositions Commonplace Retard Popular Opinion

Book:The Theory of the Leisure Class

Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class

“By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.”

Source: The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition): Annabel Lee, Ligeia, The Sphinx, The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…

“I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.”

Years Hard Opinion Novel Pieces Paper News Years Ago Spending Buying Sunday Papers Better Off Handful

Author:Gerry Adams

“Guy Gavriel Kays Tigana is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. Its beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.”

Ifs Character Guy Opinion Fantasy Novel Written Exquisite Unforgettable Fantasy Novels

Author:David B. Coe

“And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.”

Men Opinion Novel Majority Yesterday One Man

Book:Essays, letters, misc. (General articles ; Famine articles ; The Dukhobors)

Source: Essays, letters, misc. (General articles ; Famine articles ; The Dukhobors)

“A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock”

Truth Desire Individual Belief Opinion Novel Proportion