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| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. |
| Fiction |
| Fiction is the microscope of truth. Lamartine. | 1 | ||||||||
| Truth, severe by fairy fiction drest. Gray. | 2 | ||||||||
| Parent of golden dreams—romance! Byron. | 3 | ||||||||
| The greater portion of our lives is thrown away in fiction; it is only in maturer years that we awake to the stern realities of life. James Ellis. | 4 | ||||||||
| Tales that have the rime of age. Longfellow. | 5 | ||||||||
| An old novel has a history of its own. Alexander Smith. | 6 | ||||||||
| Every novel is a debtor to Homer. Emerson. | 7 | ||||||||
| Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams. Coleridge. | 8 | ||||||||
| Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction. Longfellow. | 9 | ||||||||
| I have often maintained that fiction may be much more instructive than real history. John Foster. | 10 | ||||||||
| Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction. Hazlitt. | 11 | ||||||||
| Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece. Roscommon. | 12 | ||||||||
Shakespeare. | 13 | ||||||||
| Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie, and teach that truth is truest poesy. Cowley. | 14 | ||||||||
| No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature but what he was forced to ascribe it to many inconsistencies. Bulwer-Lytton. | 15 | ||||||||
| In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself. Macaulay. | 16 | ||||||||
| Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. Whately. | 17 | ||||||||
| Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history. Bulwer-Lytton. | 18 | ||||||||
| Who would with care some happy fiction frame, so mimics truth it looks the very same. Granville. | 19 | ||||||||
| Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction. J. G. Holland. | 20 | ||||||||
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| If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. Arthur Helps. | 21 | ||||||||
| He cometh to you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. Sir P. Sidney. | 22 | ||||||||
Churchill. | 23 | ||||||||
| Fiction is no longer a mere amusement; but transcendent genius, accommodating itself to the character of the age, has seized upon this province of literature, and turned fiction from a toy into a mighty engine. Channing. | 24 | ||||||||
| Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction. Dryden. | 25 | ||||||||
| Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility. Sir J. Mackintosh. | 26 | ||||||||
| Addison acknowledged that he would rather inform than divert his reader; but he recollected that a man must be familiar with wisdom before he willingly enters on Seneca and Epictetus. Fiction allures him to the severe task by a gayer preface. Embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. Willmott. | 27 | ||||||||
| The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. * * * They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change—that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out. Robert Louis Stevenson. | 28 | ||||||||
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