Biographers Quotes

15 quotes by 13 authors

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the… — Thomas Jefferson
Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection. — Laura Furman
Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably… — Mark Bernstein
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive… — Louise Brooks
If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him,… — Thomas Jefferson
The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements… — A. N. Wilson
Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their… — Amity Shlaes
Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party. — Bill Dedman
Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping… — Claire Tomalin
Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs. — Claire Tomalin
Rebecca was a busy liar in her distinguished old age, reinventing her past for gullible biographers. — Walter Clemons
Boswell is the first of biographers — Thomas Babington Macaulay
Let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great; that it lies within human ability to overcome temptations… — Lyndon Baines Johnson

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