Memoirs Quotes

93 quotes by 91 authors

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be… — Giacomo Casanova
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if… — Isabel Allende
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. — William J. Clinton
No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs. — Garrison Keillor
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely… — James Clerk Maxwell
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the… — Ludwig Boltzmann
Memoirs are the backstairs of history. — George Meredith
Iâ€™m frequently asked why I donâ€™t write my memoirs. I think I have. — Pauline Kael
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of… — Margery Allingham
A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up… — Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. — Gloria Swanson
Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called… — John F. Kennedy
Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. — Rupert Everett
Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available, in… — Fredrik Logevall
People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough.… — Geoff Dyer
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs. — Pierre Trudeau
We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost… — Eugene Ionesco
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E.… — Erik Larson
It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory. — Arthur Schnitzler
Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs. — Joachim von Ribbentrop

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