Posterity Quotes

276 quotes by 192 authors

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity. — Miguel de Cervantes
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable,… — Henry David Thoreau
Posterity is always just. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in… — Michel de Montaigne
Posterity gives every man his true value. — Tacitus
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. — Walter Savage Landor
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it. — Charlotte Turner Smith
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to… — David Hume
I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for… — Zachary Quinto
If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even our… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether… — Benjamin Disraeli
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything. — Pierre de Fermat
The ultimate treasures on earth and in heaven are our children and our posterity. — Dallin H. Oaks
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking. — Nikolay Chernyshevsky
What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a… — Thomas B. Macaulay
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded. — Benjamin Disraeli
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. — Horace
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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