Quotes About Author

About the only person we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by being lionized was a Jew named Daniel.

The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

You do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine, or else publish your own.

'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever; he bores on architecture, painting, statuary and music.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bravery is a cheap and vulgar quality, of which the brightest instances are frequently found in the lowest savages.

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women.

One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

Canada is a collection often provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Toronto has no social classes - only the Masseys and the masses.

Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.

Cathedrals, Luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

He was one of those men whose constitutional inability to make small talk forfeits all one's sympathy, and makes one think that social grace is sometimes a moral duty.

He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.