Times Notable Book

Famous quotes containing the words times, notable and/or book:

    The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    a notable prince that was called King John;
    And he ruled England with main and with might,
    For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.
    —Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)

    A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
    Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)