Own Works Quotes
22 Own Works quotes by 20 unique authors
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Every man is the son of his own works.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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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
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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their…
— Plato
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I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo…
— Aaron Copland
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Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally…
— Paul Washer
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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
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All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The first step in our walk of faith is to stop our own works and rest in God's love, wisdom and power.
— T. B. Joshua
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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
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It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
— Leo Ornstein
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There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
— Charles Churchill
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The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who…
— Criss Jami
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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
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Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my…
— Connie Willis
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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
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If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
— John Dos Passos
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
— John Dos Passos
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There is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his heritage
— Bible
Who Wrote These Own Works Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Own Works Quotes as follows: