His Own Works Quotes
- Every man is the son of his own works. — Miguel de Cervantes
- A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth… — Howard Zahniser
- If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader. — Sarah Fielding
- What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best. — Leo Ornstein
- Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his… — John Keats
- While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he… — George Bernard Shaw
- The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. — Miguel de Cervantes
- There is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his heritage — Bible