96 Quotes About Biographies

Fact is much more fascinating than fiction.

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.