Quote by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have

Summary

In this quote, the speaker expresses their reluctance and hesitation towards sharing personal details about their early life with any writer intending to document their biography. By stating that they have never bothered to provide such information in the past, the speaker implies that they prioritize their own privacy and desire to keep certain aspects of their life private. This quote highlights an apprehension towards biographical storytelling and emphasizes the speaker's intention to maintain control over what information is shared about them.

Topics

By Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds betw

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Lord Chesterfield

Even though friends say they are interested in your life, th

Even though friends say they are interested in your life, they never really want to talk about you as much as you want them to. (68)

Charise Mericle Harper

Life Friendship Friends Sharing Talking Narcissism

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

George Bernard Shaw

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wis

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by call

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Henry David Thoreau

Success & Failure

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make th

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Reform Correction

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

Voltaire (FranÃ§oisMarie Arouet)

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist.

I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in rel

I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson