Law is a bottomless pit.

Quote by John Arbuthnot

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.

Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or...

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or...

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

Boswell is the first of biographers

Boswell is the first of biographers

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

From the time I was 7 or 8 years old, we were the roughest knockabout...

From the time I was 7 or 8 years old, we were the roughest knockabout...

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the...

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the...

The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into...

The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into...

Biography is the only true history

Biography is the only true history

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about...

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about...

There is properly no history; only biography

There is properly no history; only biography

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of...

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of...