Authors Quotes

523 quotes by 418 authors

With many countries on the verge of redefining a basic social institution,Â What Is Marriage?Â issues an urgent call for full deliberation of what is at stake.… — Mary Ann Glendon
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors... — Thomas Browne
I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine… — Pierre Bayle
It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward. — Dani Shapiro
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the… — James Boswell
I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may… — James Boswell
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil. — Baltasar Gracian
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography. — Henry David Thoreau
Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand.… — Isaac D'Israeli
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. — Samuel Johnson
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity. — Michel de Montaigne
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies… — Joseph Addison
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems,… — Plato
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has… — David Quammen
We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn,… — Luc de Clapiers
If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then… — John P. Marquand
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord,… — W. Somerset Maugham
Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure. — Pierre Beaumarchais

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