Easy Quote by Stefan Zweig

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much…

— Charles Caleb Colton

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a…

— Stephen Jay Gould

If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God.

— H. L. Mencken

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

— William Hazlitt

Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives.

— Bruno Walter

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

— Thomas Carlyle

When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the…

— Geoffrey Elton

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

— Walter Lippmann

I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma…

— Shahrukh Khan

“Greatness has its beauties, but only in retrospect and in the imagination": thus wrote General Bonaparte to General Moreau in 1800. His observation helps…

— J. Christopher Herold

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly…

— Benjamin Franklin