Biographies Quote by George Bernard Shaw Download Open image “When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.” — George Bernard Shaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biographies Books Fit Publication Remember Truth Truth is
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
