Biographies Quotes

333 Biographies quotes by 255 unique authors

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is… — Mark Twain
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. — Oscar Wilde
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. — Joseph Campbell
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. — Charles Baudelaire
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. — Albert Einstein
Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a… — Ally Carter
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the… — Viktor E. Frankl
Geniuses have the shortest biographies. — Claire Messud
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They… — Irving Stone
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy… — Barack Obama
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction. — Mae West
A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done. — Osip Mandelstam
unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories — F. Scott Fitzgerald
But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they… — John Green
All history is biography. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always live your life with your biography in mind. — Marisha Pessl
I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones. — Philip Roth
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that… — Virginia Woolf
I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by… — William James
And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers… — Philip Roth
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and… — Fernando Pessoa
Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason,… — Marisha Pessl
And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing a musical… — Steve Kluger
Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever… — Adrienne Rich

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