“On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.”
Paul Murray Kendall
“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography”
Oscar Wilde
“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written”
Mark Twain
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Thomas Carlyle
“One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.”
Theodor Haecker
“In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.”
Anthony Trollope
“Biography lends to death a new terror.”
