Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
English Memoirist Quotes
Source
Report...
In 1917 I was only beginning to learn that life, for the majority of the population, is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds, culminating in a cheap funeral.
Siegfried Sassoon
Source
Report...
On the importance of speaking French fluently rather than accurately:
It's nerve and brass, audace and disrespect, and leaping-before-you-look and what-the-hellism, that must be developed.
Diana Cooper
Source
Report...
I am fit for nothing but to carry candles and set chairs all my life.
Lord Hervey
Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Related Quotes
By profession
Memoirist Quotes
Women Memoirists
By nationality
American Memoirists
French Memoirists
Italian Memoirists
By century
20th-century Memoirists
19th-century Memoirists
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes
