Quotes About Author

Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

The glory of saving a country doesn't mean having to use the measures that contributed to its ruin!

I fear for my books.

In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

From theme to theme with secret pleasure tossed, Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.

In short, if you banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.

Nothing is so much admired, and so little understood, as wit.

Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.

I was highly pleased to see the discipline of the pack, and the good-nature of the Knight, who could not find in his heart to murder a creature that had given him so much diversion.

Cato My life is grafted on the fate of Rome: Would he save Cato? Bid him spare his country.

Mr Humphry Davy is a lively and talented man, and a thorough chemist...

Perhaps this creature had once been a human, but his lust for power had been so great that he had done the things needed to transform him into a monster bear.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

I had no doubt in my mind that I loved Alice (Tom Ward).

He scribbled a lot of words for a dying man.

In employing the long sentence the inexperienced writer should not strain after the heavy, ponderous type. Johnson and Carlyle used such a type, but remember, an ordinary mortal cannot wield the sledge hammer of a giant. Johnson and Carlyle were intellectual giants and few can hope to stand on the same literary pedestal.