Top 1200 Literary Merit Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

We believe in individual merit as a means of gaining salvation

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

My company believes in hiring people based on merit.

Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving. ... The postmodern founders' patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans throughout our formative years.

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Leaders are judged on merit and not on caste or family names.

The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning, or difficulty for the interpreter in identifying just what the meaning in question is: it means the old meanings of ambiguity with a difference. It means uncertainty of meaning (of a word or combination of words) purposefully incorporated in a literary composition for the attainment of the utmost possible variety of meaning-play compressible within the verbal limits of the composition.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

Gone are the days when the merit of a song was measured by the success of the movie.

Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.

Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.

Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.

There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.

The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

I am a believer in people succeeding on merit.

Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.

Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation

Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes us hard of hearing. Even the book is becoming an instrument of forgetting. A truly literary work comes into being as its creator's cry of protest against the forgetting that looms over him, over his predecessors and his contemporaries alike, and over his time, and the language he speaks. A literary work is something that defies death.

And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

You don't need sex and controversy when your film has merit.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

From the point of view of the relative world, merit is very important.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.

The amplification of our diverse literary voices is a political act of resistance. Our lives are important, too. Our lives should be represented in our literature. And that literature is vital, compelling, and accessible. That literature deserves to be disseminated and noticed and available. And with respect to the dissemination and promotion of diverse voices - librarians, educators, and editors of literary journals play such an important role. They deserve not only a hearty shout out, but also our thanks and support.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

I've always felt all the jobs I've ever got are on merit.

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.