Quote by Evelyn Waugh

“I expect I will win one Nobel prize and I may end up eventually winning all categories.”

— Steven Magee

“Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers when we…

— Ernest Hemingway

“A woman of merit and worth need not knock off another's crown to feel highness.”

— Sai Marie Johnson

“What is the point of a crown without a legacy?”

— Tessa Gratton

“If you want the crown, America, take it. Take it. Because it should be yours.”

— Kiera Cass

“How so much honourable is such a contest, in which one's moral conduct and achievement are brought as witnesses rather than the size of…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“We must win when we deserve it, by elevating reason and the dignity of the individual, loving justice and the good and the great,…

— José Rizal

“Always look at all the award not so much as a symbol of your personal success, but as a reminder of the responsibility that…

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

“All prizes, like all titles, are dangerous. The seekers for prizes tend to labor not for inherent excellence but for alien rewards; they tend…

— R. Scott Williams

“In the end, it's not your Nobel Prize you're thinking of, it's not your three National Book Awards, and all that. It's your sins…

— Martin Amis

“Not wanting the crown means you’re probably the best person to have it.”

— Kiera Cass

“True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.”

— Anonymous