Biographies Quote by Samuel Smiles

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study.…

— Horace Mann

“A biography should be faithful to the truth. I do not believe that a biography of a man should be all praises, it should…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It…

— Noel Riley Fitch

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

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

— Louis Fischer

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way,…

— Henry Fielding

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

— A. Scott Berg

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a…

— Robert Caro

One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts…

— Theodor Haecker

Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of…

— Janet Malcolm

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

— Rachel Holmes

I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I do, of…

— Stacy Schiff