Authorship Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“By common consent the eminent man of the time was Napoleon Bonaparte, the revolution queller, the burgher sovereign, the imperial democrat, the supreme captain,…

— William Milligan Sloane

“Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general…

— Roman Payne

It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that…

— Dario Fo

“Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What call you the town's name where Alexander the Pig was born! GOWER- Alexander the Great.…

— William Shakespeare

“His knowledge was not far behind The knight's, but of another kind, And he another way came by't ; Some call it Gifts, and…

— Samuel Butler

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

— Flannery O'Connor

“I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped…

— John Green

He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“His face was broad and fat, his mouth wide, and without any other expression than that of imbecility. His eyes vacant and spiritless, and…

— David Edmonds

Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the…

— Ambrose Bierce

“And now was one to believe that there was nowhere a god of hogs, to whom this hog personality was precious, to whom these…

— Upton Sinclair

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

— George Bernard Shaw