(8 quotes found)
“If we believe that he (Jesus Christ) really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the”
Thomas Jefferson
“[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.”
Paul Murray Kendall
“Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.”
Italo Calvino
“Boswell is the first of biographers”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“Biographers, we're weird. For whatever reasons of conditioning, our temporal sense is different from other people's, and I knew it would take 10 years. And that's just the way it is.”
James Atlas
“Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.”
Mary Schmich
“All his Celtic rogues, epic seers, and Anthony Quinn leanings were swept up in one grand old ham, ... Biographical Dictionary of Film.”
David Thomson
“Rebecca was a busy liar in her distinguished old age, reinventing her past for gullible biographers.”
Walter Clemons
