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Sophocles Quotes

All Time Famous Quotes of Sophocles

Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus; and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles Quotes 1. “Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.” — […]

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Molière Quotes

All Time Famous Quotes of Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. Molière Quotes 1. “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” — Molière […]

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Maxim Gorky Quotes

All Time Famous Quotes of Maxim Gorky

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (28 March 1868 – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer and socialist political thinker and proponent. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an author, he travelled widely across the Russian Empire changing jobs frequently, experiences […]

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George Orwell Quotes

All Time Famous Quotes of George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterized by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism. George Orwell Quotes 1. “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public […]

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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

All Time Famous Quotes of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States, and of American literature. Edgar Allan Poe […]

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Charles Dickens Quotes

All Time Famous Quotes of Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and […]

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William Faulkner Quotes

All Time Famous Quotes of William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often […]

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Umberto Eco Quotes

All Time Famous Quotes of Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco OMRI (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, […]

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Quotes

All Time Famous Quotes of J.R.R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. J.R.R. […]

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Ivan Turgenev Quotes

Famous Quotes oIvan Turgenev

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collection titled A Sportsman’s Sketches, was a milestone of Russian realism. Ivan Turgenev Quotes 1. “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, […]

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