Biography Quote by Arthur Balfour Download Open image “Biography should be written by an acute enemy.” — Arthur Balfour ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biography Enemy Should Writing Written
I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject. — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
“A biography should be faithful to the truth. I do not believe that a biography of a man should be all praises, it should… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known… — Ira Bruce Nadel Copy Share Image
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
It's a presumptuous thing to write one's autobiography, but this is really an effort in the deepest sense to explore the struggle of a… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.” — Deana J. Driver Copy Share Image
Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
“We survey the past, and see that its history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
“If you can choose your way into a cage, you can choose your way out.” — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express… — Joel Spector Larry Geller Patricia Romanowski Copy Share Image
“Maybe he'd never come acrross anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an occupational hazard;… — Aiden Shaw Copy Share Image
It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
“Pong had mutated into large stand-up Sega consoles by '82 and here was some extra revenue the guys were well up for. So the… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
“The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home” — Estella M. Chung Copy Share Image
I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
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