Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 841 authors

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever… — Isaac D'Israeli
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? — William Shakespeare
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the… — Charles Lamb
To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de… — Arthur Koestler
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or… — John Ruskin
One hates an author that's all author. — Lord Byron
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. — Alfred North Whitehead
Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or… — William Francis Henry King
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by… — Andre Gide
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. — Isaac D'Israeli
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. — Plato
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best. — Samuel Johnson
Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long,… — Epictetus
He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author. — Walter Savage Landor
Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of… — Robert Benchley

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