Biographies Quotes

333 Biographies quotes by 255 unique authors

Biography is the only true history. — Thomas Carlyle
Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose… — Thomas Carlyle
Biography is one of the new terrors of death. — John Arbuthnot
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy. — Robert Caro
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the… — Philip Guedalla
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great. — Edmund White
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. — Martin Lewis Perl
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person. — Louis Fischer
The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out. — Unknown Author
On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it. — Unknown Author
I'm an avid biography reader. — Brent Spiner
Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and… — Sogyal Rinpoche
But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so… — Unknown Author
Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death. — Virginia Woolf
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought… — Rebecca West
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do… — John Dominic Crossan
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 events… — Barbara Kruger
I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so… — Leslie Caron
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris

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