Best quotes by George Henry Lewes on Literature

Checkout quotes by George Henry Lewes on Literature

  • Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.
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  • 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
  • Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
    - George Henry Lewes
  • The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
    - George Henry Lewes
  • All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
    - George Henry Lewes
  • All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
    - George Henry Lewes
  • Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
    - George Henry Lewes