Horace Greeley Quote by Various

“Horace Greeley cautioned one upstate hopeful: “You do not realize how little the mere talent of writing well has to do with success or…

— Mike Wallace

“It was in Horace Greeley that Margaret recognized a “go-ahead, fearless adroitness” that was simply “American.” Waldo’s deprecatory assessment that Greeley was “no scholar,”…

— Megan Marshall

“Those I call Horace are absolutely convinced they’re some sort of social wit. Without a doubt they’re intelligent, and most likely very wealthy, although…

— Karl Wiggins

“Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver’s Travels…

— Charlotte Brontë

Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not…

— Edward Young

“The grags came down heavily on those who did not conform and seemed not to realize that this was like stamping potatoes into the…

— Terry Pratchett

“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and authors, many…

— Karen Swallow Prior

“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I was a…

— Mary Karr

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

— Michael Moore

“They call this place a farm — but no farmer could possibly make a living from it these days, no matter how hard he worked.”

— Alexander Key

“One ought to know everything, to write. All of us scribblers are monstrously ignorant. If only we weren’t lacking in stamina, what a rich…

— Gustave Flaubert

“... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that…

— Jane Austen