Als Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer

“Gold was not sure of many things,but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew,he could name at least two of…

— Joseph Heller

“One single supporter remained faithful to him: an old paralytic, Lord Albermarle. The noble lord, confined to his armchair, would have given his whole…

— Jules Verne

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and…

— Joseph Addison

“Is not he? I had him along for his books and potions, and kept him for his character. Profundities of disgruntled sentiments, injured spirits,…

— Michelle Franklin

“Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed…

— Virginia Woolf

“He was also a poet, but of less merit than pretensions. His Chrysopeia, in which he pretended to teach the art of making gold,…

— Charles Mackay

He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome…

— Iain Pears

“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it…

— Douglas Adams

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

— Anonymous

“He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous…

— Russell Shorto

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

— Adam DeVine