74 Quotations with Biography.
- 1. Samuel Goldwyn: I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
- 2. Oscar Wilde: Biography lends to death a new terror.
- 3. Katherine Paterson: Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn ...
- 4. George Orwell: An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A ...
- 5. Abraham J. Heschel: The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advan ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacitie ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 8. Philip Guedalla: Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
- 9. Lytton Strachey: Discretion is not the better part of biography.
- 10. Mahatma Gandhi: I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway ...
- 11. F. Scott Fitzgerald: There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is to ...
- 12. Ralph Waldo Emerson: There is properly no history; only biography.
- 13. Benjamin Disraeli: Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
- 14. Richard Holmes: A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.
- 15. Andre Maurois: A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a fee ...
- 16. Oscar Wilde: A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
- 17. Fawn M. Brodie: A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his pr ...
- 18. Rebecca West: All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin ...
- 19. Quentin Crisp: An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing ...
- 20. John Berger: Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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