Quotes about Author
For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.
— JC Ryle
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.
— JRR Tolkien
[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.
— John Adams
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.
— John Donne
I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus
— Mother Teresa
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
— John Milton
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
— John Calvin
I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
— Benjamin Disraeli
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
— Thomas a Kempis
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
— George Bernard Shaw