Posterity Quotes

• Time will unveil all things to posterity.

  

  Euripides
  • Time
  • All Things
  • Posterity

• Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Knows
  • Littles
  • Posterity

• Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . .

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Lying
  • Creation
  • Tenderness

• But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Red

• The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.

  

  Sallust
  • Glory
  • Qualities
  • Remain

• Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.

  

  Alexander Crummell
  • Posterity
  • Temptations
  • Unlearned

• The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Author
  • Able
  • Posterity

• Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Judges
  • Posterity
  • Rightly

• Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

  

  Euripides
  • Question
  • Discover
  • Posterity

• For, since the fall of Adam had brought disgrace upon all his posterity, God restores those, whom He separates as His own, so that their condition may be better than that of all other nations. At the same time it must be remarked, that this grace of renewal is effaced in many who have afterwards profaned it

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Fall
  • Nations

• Posterity is always just.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Reputation
  • Posterity

• A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.

  

  Augustus John
  • Emotions
  • Share
  • Painter

• Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Books
  • Writer
  • Omissions

• We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . . Then he that has overcome and is found worthy, will be made a king of kings, a lord of lords over his own posterity, or in other words: A father of fathers.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Kingdoms

• I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Mistake
  • Dreams
  • Genius

• Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

  

  Robert Walpole
  • House
  • Before
  • Infamy

• It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Future
  • Taxes
  • Posterity

• Oh for a fleet that could look the proudest power in Europe in the face, on this our rightful Western Ocean! But alas, it must be left to posterity — at the age of 50 I can't expect to view it unless from above.

  

  Edward Rutledge
  • Power
  • View
  • Europe

• I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Posterity
  • Last Word

• Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

  

  Tacitus
  • Man
  • Posterity
  • True Value

• Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Ideals

• I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Sorry
  • Playing
  • I Hope

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