Authors Quotes

There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

I know that many will call this useless work. Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy-on experience, the mistress of their Masters.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.