4+ Frank Kermode Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Frank Kermode quotes and sayings.

It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end. — Frank Kermode

I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets d'un biologiste." There is a risk that in the less severe discipline of criticism the result may turn out to be different; the theories will remain but the frog may disappear. — Frank Kermode

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives. — Frank Kermode

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions. — Frank Kermode