Written Against Quotes
- The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I… — Jorge Luis Borges
- It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against… — Oscar Wilde
- The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. — Charles Caleb Colton
- Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. — Ezra Pound
- Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel