Book Quote by Frank Moore Colby

A man will be known by his books.

— William Martin

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

— J. Oswald Sanders

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

— Voltaire

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

— Benjamin Jowett

Beware the man of a single book.

— Anonymous

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“In every author, let us distinguish the man from his work.”

— Voltaire

Beware the man of one book.

— St Thomas Aquinas

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...

— Ernest Hemingway

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson