Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or historian:
“The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new haut monde in letters and making up the publics mind.”
—Fannie Hurst (18891968)
“Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of changeonly to give stability to one beautiful moment.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)