Great Author Quotes

26 quotes by 22 authors

Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride… — Anthony of Padua
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of… — James Dwight Dana
[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply… — George Washington
There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much… — Eliza Haywood
SeÃ¡n Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while… — Joe McNally
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers. — John Farrar
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
The great authors share their souls with us- "literally. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then… — Andre Maurois
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old. — Brian Johnson
The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things. — Thomas Aquinas
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. — Andre Gide
All great authors are seers. — George Henry Lewes
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living… — Ross Perot
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is… — Mark Twain
No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid more… — George Washington

Who Wrote These Great Author Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 26 Great Author Quotes as follows: