Preface Quotes

30 quotes by 29 authors

• Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle;… — Austin Phelps
• Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction. — Ambrose Bierce
• Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. — Walter Scott
• Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of… — Henry Ward Beecher
• As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we… — Brian Kernighan
• If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at… — Bud Grant
• Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
• This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the… — Plutarch
• The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• That's one of the best sets I've seen him play, although I should preface that by saying I haven't seen him play before. — John McEnroe
• The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Victory needs conflict as its preface. — Charles Spurgeon
• General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in many… — Lawrence Venuti
• Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not… — Jorge Luis Borges
• Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors. — James Rollins
• In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in… — D. V. Ager
• I wish to preface my reflections by saying that I am conducting this prayer service and am speaking to you now with great reluctance. I… — Thomas J. Paprocki
• Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are a daily record… — Grenville Kleiser
• I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, 'I love X, but... '… — Sloane Crosley

Who Wrote These Preface Quotes

29 authors contributed a total of 30 Preface Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Preface Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Preface Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll
• 1 Preface Quote by Jorge Luis Borges
• 1 Preface Quote by James Rollins
• 1 Preface Quote by D. V. Ager
• 1 Preface Quote by Thomas J. Paprocki
• 1 Preface Quote by Grenville Kleiser
• 1 Preface Quote by Sloane Crosley
• 1 Preface Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
• 1 Preface Quote by Sarah Kane
• 1 Preface Quote by Walter Benjamin
• 1 Preface Quote by Christopher Hitchens
• 1 Preface Quote by Margaret Atwood
• 1 Preface Quote by Karl Marx
• 1 Preface Quote by Kenneth Oppel
• 1 Preface Quote by James Loeb
• 1 Preface Quote by RMKATTA
• 1 Preface Quote by Austin Phelps
• 1 Preface Quote by Walter Scott
• 1 Preface Quote by Henry Ward Beecher
• 1 Preface Quote by Brian Kernighan
• 1 Preface Quote by Bud Grant
• 1 Preface Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
• 1 Preface Quote by Plutarch
• 1 Preface Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton