Edith Hamilton People Quotations

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.