Men Quote by Samuel Johnson

“It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Never in her life had she seen such literary men. They were incredibly vain, but made no secret of it, as though they were…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

— Thomas Carlyle

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

— George Ade

Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that…

— George W. S. Trow

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or…

— James Payn

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

— John Keats

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to…

— Lord Byron

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

— Muriel Spark

Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir…

— Henry David Thoreau