Someone calls biography the home aspect of history..
My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my practice, than in….
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy..
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since t….
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies..
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette..
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era..
John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter..
[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their….
What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor..
The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out..
The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever..
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken..
I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going t….
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography..
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before tha….
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was..
[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of m….
A photograph is a biography of a moment..
Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to b….
There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And that comes out of a var….