Best Their Works Quotes
51 Their Works quotes by 48 unique authors
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If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know…
— Jonathan Swift
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
— Alexander Pope
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The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had…
— Anton Seidl
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Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you…
— Criss Jami
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Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of…
— William Cowper
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The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
— Edgar Degas
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Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works.…
— Criss Jami
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The gods sustain and guide all their works.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having…
— Blaise Pascal
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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
— William Penn
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Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must…
— Robinson Jeffers
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle.…
— J. Oswald Sanders
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I am a lover of the cause of Christ and of virtue, chastity, and an upright, steady course of conduct and a holy walk. I…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever
— Edmund Burke
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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.
— Charles Bukowski
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He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but it…
— Sebastian Faulks
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...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life…
— Italo Calvino
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In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our…
— Mikhail Sholokhov
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The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.
— Stephen Kinzer
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Authors should be honored only for their works.
— John Updike
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And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book…
— Bible
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