Biography lends to death a new terror.Oscar WildeTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“Biography lends to death a new terror.
“No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.”Oscar WildeArt
“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.”
“I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.”Ashwin SanghiBiography
“I think that when Tolkien created Gollum and the ring, he even expressed in his biography that he never really knew what he created until he went back and looked at it.”Richard C. ArmitageBiography
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.”Oscar WildeRelationships
“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.”Oscar WildeMoney
“There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.”Oscar WildeDevotion
“To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember this happening was when I was 10, with a biography of Thomas Edison.”Jonathan FranzenBiography
“Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening.”Neil deGrasse TysonBiography
“I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography!”Stephen GreenblattBiography