Quotes by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. >>

What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A gr >>

Apology is only egotism wrong side out. >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. >>

As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or >>

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live >>

The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell