Quotes by Author
7,946 authors, from philosophers and poets to scientists and statesmen.
Most quoted authors
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 692
- Oscar Wilde 417
- William Shakespeare 401
- Samuel Johnson 341
- Mark Twain 337
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 313
- Henry David Thoreau 298
- George Bernard Shaw 259
- Benjamin Franklin 247
- Thomas Carlyle 212
- Lord Byron 198
- Friedrich Nietzsche 189
- Seneca 183
- Albert Einstein 177
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld 176
- George Eliot 167
- Abraham Lincoln 152
- Francis Bacon 149
- Gilbert K. Chesterton 145
- Benjamin Disraeli 145
- Eric Hoffer 139
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 138
- Marcus T. Cicero 137
- William Hazlitt 133
- Winston Churchill 132
- H. L. Mencken 130
- John Ruskin 127
- Henry Ward Beecher 122
- Georg C. Lichtenberg 122
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 120
- Voltaire 119
- Aristotle 116
- Samuel Butler 116
- Horace 116
- Thomas Jefferson 116
- Henry Miller 115
- Ambrose Bierce 114
- Albert Camus 111
- William James 111
- Bertrand Russell 111
- Thomas Fuller 107
- Charles Caleb Colton 106
- Orison Swett Marden 105
- Mahatma Gandhi 103
- Ernest Hemingway 100
- Napoleon Bonaparte 99
- Elbert Hubbard 99
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 99
- Alexander Pope 99
- John F. Kennedy 98
- Chinese Proverb 98
- Napoleon Hill 96
- Edmund Burke 95
- Confucius 93
- Victor Hugo 93
- Aldous Huxley 92
- Miguel De Cervantes 91
- Virginia Woolf 91
- Lord Chesterfield 89
- D. H. Lawrence 88
A
- Aristotle 116
- Joseph Addison 84
- W. H. Auden 81
- Henri Frederic Amiel 60
- Marcus Aurelius 50
- St. Augustine 45
- Hannah Arendt 42
- Woody Allen 38
- Jane Austen 36
B
- Lord Byron 198
- Francis Bacon 149
- Henry Ward Beecher 122
- Samuel Butler 116
- Ambrose Bierce 114
- Napoleon Bonaparte 99
- Edmund Burke 95
- William Blake 86
- Jean Baudrillard 82
C
- Thomas Carlyle 212
- Gilbert K. Chesterton 145
- Marcus T. Cicero 137
- Winston Churchill 132
- Albert Camus 111
- Charles Caleb Colton 106
- Confucius 93
- Miguel De Cervantes 91
- Lord Chesterfield 89
D
- Benjamin Disraeli 145
- Wayne Dyer 75
- Charles Dickens 73
- John Dryden 62
- Princess of Wales Diana 59
- Emily Dickinson 45
- Denis Diderot 44
- Peter F. Drucker 39
- Edward Dahlberg 37
E
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 692
- Albert Einstein 177
- George Eliot 167
- T. S. Eliot 64
- Epictetus 56
- Euripides 53
- Dwight D. Eisenhower 51
- Thomas A. Edison 48
- Desiderius Erasmus 44
F
- Benjamin Franklin 247
- Thomas Fuller 107
- Robert Frost 80
- Sigmund Freud 63
- Henry Ford 53
- Edward M. Forster 42
- Henry Fielding 41
- Anatole France 37
- Erich Fromm 33
G
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 313
- Mahatma Gandhi 103
- Oliver Goldsmith 82
- John Kenneth Galbraith 52
- Kahlil Gibran 51
- Bhagavad Gita 43
- Germaine Greer 40
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset 37
- Baltasar Gracian 34
H
- Eric Hoffer 139
- William Hazlitt 133
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 120
- Horace 116
- Ernest Hemingway 100
- Elbert Hubbard 99
- Napoleon Hill 96
- Victor Hugo 93
- Aldous Huxley 92
I
- Washington Irving 31
- Robert Green Ingersoll 28
- Henrik Ibsen 23
- Lee Iacocca 21
- Dean William R. Inge 16
- Eugene Ionesco 13
- Ivan Illich 7
- Elizabeth I 5
- John Irving 3
J
- Samuel Johnson 341
- Thomas Jefferson 116
- William James 111
- Carl Jung 53
- Henry James 43
- Joseph Joubert 43
- Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) 37
- Lyndon B. Johnson 36
- Erica Jong 27
K
- John F. Kennedy 98
- Martin Luther King Jr. 64
- Soren Kierkegaard 62
- Thomas p Kempis 50
- John Keats 45
- Helen Keller 45
- Karl Kraus 45
- Milan Kundera 36
- Rudyard Kipling 34
L
- Abraham Lincoln 152
- Georg C. Lichtenberg 122
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 99
- D. H. Lawrence 88
- James Russell Lowell 67
- Martin Luther 60
- Walter Lippmann 56
- Lao-Tzu 49
- Vince Lombardi 46
M
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 138
- H. L. Mencken 130
- Henry Miller 115
- Orison Swett Marden 105
- W. Somerset Maugham 71
- John Milton 67
- Karl Marx 49
- Og Mandino 44
- Marshall Mcluhan 40
N
- Friedrich Nietzsche 189
- Earl Nightingale 40
- Ogden Nash 36
- Richard M. Nixon 34
- Jawaharlal Nehru 21
- Anais Nin 15
- Peggy Noonan 15
- Vladimir Nabokov 12
- George Jean Nathan 11
O
- Ovid 83
- George Orwell 75
- P. J. O'Rourke 26
- Austin O'Malley 16
- Sean O'Casey 15
- Sir William Osler 15
- David Ogilvy 10
- Margaret Oliphant 10
- Ouida 9
P
- Alexander Pope 99
- Chinese Proverb 98
- Plato 85
- Blaise Pascal 79
- French Proverb 79
- English Proverb 71
- Ezra Pound 63
- German Proverb 58
- Pablo Picasso 57
Q
- Francis Quarles 21
- Edgar Quinet 13
- Dan Quayle 12
- Thomas De Quincey 9
- Qur'an 9
- John Quinton 4
- Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi 2
- Nido Qubein 2
- Pasquier Quesnel 2
R
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld 176
- John Ruskin 127
- Bertrand Russell 111
- Anthony Robbins 87
- Will Rogers 76
- Jim Rohn 73
- Jean Jacques Rousseau 69
- Theodore Roosevelt 67
- Franklin D. Roosevelt 55
S
- William Shakespeare 401
- George Bernard Shaw 259
- Seneca 183
- George Santayana 87
- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 86
- Arthur Schopenhauer 85
- Publilius Syrus 81
- Jonathan Swift 75
- Socrates 69
T
- Mark Twain 337
- Henry David Thoreau 298
- James Thurber 54
- Lord Alfred Tennyson 52
- Mother Teresa 45
- Harry S. Truman 44
- Brian Tracy 43
- Alexis De Tocqueville 42
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus 39
U
- John Updike 41
- Miguel De Unamuno 13
- Peter Ustinov 11
- Veda Upanishads 6
- Samuel Ullman 5
- Katha Upanishad 5
- Johnny Unitas 3
- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 3
- Bobby Unser 2
V
- Voltaire 119
- Virgil 44
- Gore Vidal 35
- Marquis De Vauvenargues 31
- Leonardo Da Vinci 21
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 19
- Raoul Vaneigem 18
- Queen Victoria 17
- Peter De Vries 17
W
- Oscar Wilde 417
- Virginia Woolf 91
- Simone Weil 87
- Walt Whitman 73
- Denis Waitley 67
- Woodrow T. Wilson 61
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 45
- William Wordsworth 44
- E(lwyn) B(rooks) White 34
X
- Malcolm X 25
- Louis XIV 6
- Pope John XXIII 5
- Alfonso X 2
- Louis XVIII 2
- Cao Xueqin 1
- Leo XIII 1
- Lu Xun 1
- Pius XII 1
Y
- William Butler Yeats 36
- Edward Young 17
- Brigham Young 16
- Andrew Young 12
- Lin Yn-tang 8
- Young 8
- Paramahansa Yogananda 5
- Henny Youngman 4
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko 3
Z
- Zig Ziglar 41
- Mao Zedong 19
- Peter Nivio Zarlenga 11
- Frank Zappa 9
- Israel Zangwill 7
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias 6
- William Zinsser 6
- Johann Georg Zimmermann 4
- Zoroaster 4