Top 36 Ancient Writers Quotes
#1. And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
Michel De Montaigne
#2. I am rather inclined, however, to agree with ancient writers, that in those passages[1]wherein it is stated that the angel of the Lord appeared to Abraham, Jacob, and Moses, Christ was that angel.
John Calvin
#3. The ancient writers were not merely convinced of Moses' existence: they saw him as one of the formative figures of world history.
Paul Johnson
#4. Ancient writers sometimes meant what they said and occasionally even knew what they were talking about.
George Kennedy
#5. Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.
William Butler Yeats
#6. He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous for it.
Russell Shorto
#7. With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates tendency to look to the virtues and vices of individuals when seeking causes.
Peter Heather
#8. I do MMA and things like that, so any chance I get to do my own stunts, I love it.
Justin Lee
#9. Our journey is one of discovery on Sicily.
Like the past Greek writers.orators,historians and philosophers we are all searching for answers on Earth
Daniel Peter Buckley
#10. If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
George Bernard Shaw
#11. It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
Francois Rabelais
#12. I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime.
Ismail Kadare
#13. In the real world, he and I could never work. I kissed him just that much harder and pushed all thoughts of why this was wrong to the back of my mind and surrendered to all the reasons it felt right.
Braxton Cole
#15. I'm happy with the success I've had, and I feel like there's been a lot that I've learned this year, and that's a great thing going into the future.
Rory McIlroy
#16. The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.
David Gilmour
#17. Piety and pity were a little to close to each other for my tastes.
Jodi Picoult
#18. It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.
James Smithson
#19. It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.
Joseph Addison
#20. If I look closely, I bet I could see my own past, lying on the floor somewhere between the ancient jukebox and the pool table.
Kol Anderson
#21. While it's nice to appreciate the fashion world ... what makes you happy are real relationships and the moments you share with loved ones.
Miranda Kerr
#22. Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and
brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?
Polybius
#23. The proper worldview context for interpreting the Bible is not evangelicalism, Catholicism, the Protestant Reformation, the Puritans - or even the modern world. The proper context for interpreting the Bible is the context in which it was written - that of the ancient biblical writers.
Michael S. Heiser
#24. The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.
[Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech]
John Steinbeck
#25. Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location.
Adrian McKinty
#26. For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Lao-Tzu
#27. A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
John Morley
#28. Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.
William Fleming
#29. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#30. Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.
Goldwin Smith
#31. Later he decided the specifics were not important, that the true lesson of accidents is not the how or the why, but the taken-for-granted world they exile you from.
Colson Whitehead
#32. I have come to think that boredom is the worst of all a tramp's evils, worse than hunger and discomfort, worse even than the constant feeling of being socially disgraced.
George Orwell
#33. When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same.
Vironika Tugaleva
#34. Who you spend your time with is who you are, or who you will soon become.
Bryant McGill
#35. I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#36. I'm a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.
Angela Davis
