The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community. — Aeschines Copy Share Image
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four… — Brian Johnson Copy Share Image
The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow. — Gary Player Copy Share Image
There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it,… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them;… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Over the years, my books have been given a lot more credence than they should. I don't think people should take them… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Mann and Joyce are very different, and yet their fiction often appeals to the same people: Harry Levin taught a famous course… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers. — John Farrar Copy Share Image
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
You should not put too much trust in any unproved conjecture, even if it has been propounded by a great authority, even… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
