Top 25 Quotes by George Steiner

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

The age of the book is almost gone.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.