Quotes About Author

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

Ben was a very simple straightforward man with a brilliant quick mind.

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.

Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !

For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog.

I love that magazine, man - Victoria's Secret - and it comes, like, every three hours.

I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.

A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

Though with Bridget Jones's Baby: the Diaries, I'd like to make it clear that I did not ever get pregnant by two men.