Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM In the worst memoirs, you can feel the author justifying himself - forgiving himself - in every para...
DARIN STRAUSS If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they ...
SARAH FIELDING If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.
- Johann Christoph Friedrich v...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If it were Hegel, I m...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Poets are sultans, if they had their will:
For every author would his brother kill.
ROGER BOYLE, BARON BROGHILL AND EARL OF ORRERY Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts wit...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
BIBLE Ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft.
-Goethe-
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers...
EDMUND PHELPS To be fair, he has a personal history of charitable works like this, so it's not as if this is some ...
ALLAN MAYER The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait t...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Could he with reason murmur at his case,
Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
WILLIAM COWPER When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives hi...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is writ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of h...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel ...
YITZHAK SHAMIR What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or ...
CATHERINE CROWE Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupatio...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
AMBROSE BIERCE A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
SACHIN TENDULKAR Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unle...
BERTRAND RUSSELL He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one tra...
THE TALMUD God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back
again to Himself.
MATTHEW BARKER Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakes...
DANIEL WEBSTER Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakes...
DANIEL WEBSTER He has eyes so expressive they give a hint to more than what he portrays. He’s dedicated to his fr...
SIMONE ELKELES A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry�...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel ...
TOM BROKAW It just goes to show that if you keep working hard, good things will happen to you. J-Mac works his ...
BRIAN BENSON Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of...
H. L. MENCKEN Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The average suspect works by himself, is a male, is white, and is in his mid 20s.
AARON GRAHAM He was of the opinion... th...
GEORG HENRIK VON WRIGHT God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
JOHANNES TAULER It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself b...
JOSEPH ADDISON You want to raise your child in such a way that you don%uFFFDt have to control him, so that he will ...
L. RON HUBBARD If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other ...
BILLY GRAHAM An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his th...
ALAN SIMPSON An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his th...
ALAN K. SIMPSON What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in ...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy
mode, which some adroitly employ to ...
ISAAC D'ISRAELI Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He ha...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even ...
MAIMONIDES I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Everyone will be gunning for him. He'll be a marked man; he'll have a big 'X' on his back. People wi...
PETER REID He's going to be a natural. He is a natural. His demeanor and everything about him presents himself ...
GREG BURNS It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself ev...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned a...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He's really mellow. Not mellow in a boring way. Mellow in his laid-back, comfortable with himself ki...
JAMES CIANCIOLA Every student of science, even if he cannot start his journey where his predecessors left off, can a...
THEODORE WILLIAM RICHARDS We applaud his wanting to be absolutely, totally honorable in every way,
PETER UEBERROTH Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see t...
THE BIBLE He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he viol...
THOMAS PAINE The most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold...
JOHN CALVIN The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardl...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Everyone deserved the chance to be redeemed, and Michael had gone his whole life never having it. He...
PRISCILLA GLENN My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if no...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a ...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY Music has always been an inspiring factor in my work, and this piece portrays a DJ performing his cr...
DAREN CAUSEY The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resour...
THORNTON WILDER The novel portrays Opus Dei in a completely inaccurate way; if the movie does the same thing it's so...
BRIAN FINNERTY The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pr...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I think the president has raised the stakes for himself. He has raised the stakes for his presidency...
DAVID GERGEN He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he viola...
THOMAS PAINE He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he viol...
THOMAS PAINE He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he viola...
THOMAS PAINE He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violat...
THOMAS PAINE As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, i...
ERICH FROMM As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, i...
ERICH FROMM Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
SIVANANDA Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
BUDDHA Because I finally can,” Sebastian said. “You’ve no idea what it’s been like, being around th...
CASSANDRA CLARE The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced eve...
GEORGETTE HEYER Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit,...
BIBLE He painted himself in a corner and fought his way out. That showed some pitch ability. One, some for...
CLINT HURDLE Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a chi...
ERIK ERIKSON Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cel...
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his...
MEIR KAHANE He comes in here early, he works out, he goes about his business the right way. He goes about his bu...
EDDIE GUARDADO He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still,
Which he may adhere to, yet di...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives hi...
T.S. ELIOT Even though my father never made millions of dollars, he was rich in so many ways. He seemed so cont...
JAMES DOYLE He's obviously been dealing with some issues and his way of handling it was to remove himself from t...
BRETT PAPWORTH There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not throu...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD He who works before dawn will soon be his own master.
VIKRANT PARSAI Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only ...
CRISS JAMI The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His Name with the Father in conjunction with ...
ANDREW MURRAY Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will ...
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will ...
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us...
D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES