Quotes About Author

The confession of Herbert de Lernac, now lying under sentence of death at Marseilles, has thrown a light upon one of the most inexplicable crimes of the century — an incident which is, I believe, absolutely unprecedented in the criminal annals of any country.

We ain't nervous folk, as you know well; but when it comes to makin' a weekend visit and finding you've run full butt into the Day of Judgement, it wants a bit of explainin'.

Oh! A mystery is it?' I cried, rubbing my hands. 'This is very piquant. I am much obliged to you for bringing us together. The proper study of mankind is man you know

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.

The first time, I couldn't have felt more panicked if I'd sneezed and found pieces of my brain in the handkerchief.

Granny, as I went on to learn, was more terrified of fire than beer is of a thirsty old man.

Sentimentality, he reflected, was an aid and comfort to the opponents of progress.

To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like paté de foie gras.

Should we sit with idle hands because the consequences of an act are never quite to be foreseen, and hence all action is evil?

there are no frontiers where the realm of science ends and that of art begins, and the uomo universale of the Renaissance was a citizen of both.

The distinction between true and false applies to ideas, not to emotions; an emotion can be cheap, but never untrue.

In the ring this had always brought him considerable applause, but he had learned to his regret that in the class struggle the double Nelson was not done.

The jokes in the previous section can all be described as universes of discourse colliding, frames getting entangled, or contexts getting confused.

The curse of 'spherism' upon man's vision of the universe lasted for two thousand years.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

knowing smile on his face: What's this mischief here?

Now remember what the angel Raphael said to the boy Tobias. Remember it. 'Do that which is good,and no harm shall come to thee.

HALE, to Parris, trying to contain himself: Is every defense an attack upon the court? Can no one—?

No man only needs a little salary.

What ideology, I wondered, was not based on a principled denial of the facts?

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible

A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form which his thoughts take, in other words, what it is that he has thought about it.