Autobiographies Quotes

• Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Children
  • Book
  • Genius

• Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • People
  • Why
  • Truth

• All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Lies
  • Autobiographies

• Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Writing
  • Autobiographies
  • Love Letter

• Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Book
  • Nations
  • Autobiographies

• Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.

  

  Michael Tubbs
  • Time
  • Growing Up
  • Autobiographies

• I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

  

  George Sewell
  • Write
  • Clever
  • Autobiographies