96 Quotes About Biographies

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?

Biography is the best form of history.

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.

Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late.

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.