Preface Quotes
- NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be… — Arthur Schopenhauer
- But you have friends. You have a lot of friends. What do you offer your friends to make them so supportave. What do you offer… — Sarah Kane
- Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday. — Walter Benjamin
- [P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. — Christopher Hitchens
- Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface,… — Margaret Atwood
- There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of… — Karl Marx
- The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing! — Kenneth Oppel
- I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of… — James Loeb
- Kindness is a brief preface to ten volumes of exaction. — Ambrose Bierce
- The Preface to Lyrical Ballads is the subject of the inspiration, not of the per-spiration. — RMKATTA