Biography Quotes

20 quotations about Biography

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

There is properly no history; only biography.

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

The surrounding that householders crave are glorified autobiographies.

An autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.

Anyone who profits from the experience of others probably writes biographies.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

Biography is a higher gossip.

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