In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never... →
W. H. Auden
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine... →
John James Audubon
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.
Frank Auerbach
She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often... →
Bille August
Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are... →
Ken Auletta
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself... →
Marcus Aurelius
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to... →
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.