Character Quote by Lord Chesterfield

“Of all I have ever seen or learned, that book seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression of man's…

— Thomas Wolfe

He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to…

— Daniel Coit Gilman

His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible,…

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener…

— Blaise Pascal

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone…

— Evelyn Waugh

“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 didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at…

— Claire Messud

“His every movement was laced with a lethal combination of grace and strength, a lord among mere mortals. He was confident, arrogant, composed and…

— Paula Quinn

“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his life, and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“. In many points, both literary and moral, I could have wished devoutly that he had not written as he has done;”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and…

— Mary Shelley

“He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing…

— Ricardo Piglia