Quotes About Author

He had more tow on his distaff Than Gerveis knew.

Brimful of pardons come from Rome, all hot. He had the same small voice a goat has got

That's the water calling. It's a long time since anyone was drowned.

Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Just as we often say of virtue that the greatest witness for its reality is the semblance that hypocrisy borrows from it, so Intellect cannot keep Reason off.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw. He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

Every man who records his illusions is providing data for the genuinely scientific psychology which the world still waits for.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief

I am sorry to say that it is a common practice with romancers to announce their hero as a man of extraordinary genius, and to leave his works entirely to the reader's imagination; so that at the end of the book you whisper to yourself ruefully that but for the author's solemn preliminary assurance you should hardly have given the gentleman credit for ordinary good sense.

Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.

Our language is the language of Shakespeare, Thompson and Milton, as we sit and croon like bilious pigeons.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

Spisovate? je ?lovek, ktorému nesta?ia knihy tých druhých.

Boasting about modesty is typical of the English.

So the Gospel is not a message of condemnation as some abusive leaders would have us think but rather a message of freedom and empowerment.

Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.