Horace Binney Wallace famous quotes

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
-- Horace Binney Wallace

#Kind #Posterity

Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!
-- Horace Binney Wallace

#Sweet #Dark #Rivers

I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it.
-- Horace Binney Wallace

#Book #Thinking #Alive

I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

Time will unveil all things to posterity.

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.