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Posterity Quotes

1.
I'm interested in designing for posterity.
Alexander McQueen

Authors on Posterity Quotes: W. S. Gilbert Marcel Proust Arundhati Roy Benjamin Disraeli Horace Walpole Jean-Jacques Rousseau Benjamin Franklin Hortense Calisher Jorge Luis Borges Peter Reading Walter Cronkite Doug Liman Abraham Lincoln Joseph Addison Thomas Paine Alexander McQueen Elmore Leonard Miguel de Cervantes Madame de Stael Anton Chekhov Euripides Horace Binney Wallace
2.
I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
Elmore Leonard

3.
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges

4.
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
Horace Binney Wallace

5.
Posterity is always just.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

6.
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
Walter Cronkite

7.
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Joseph Addison

8.
Titles do not count with posterity.
Thomas Paine

9.
Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.
Anton Chekhov

10.
Time will unveil all things to posterity.
Euripides

11.
Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
Madame de Stael

12.
An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
Benjamin Disraeli

13.
I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.
Hortense Calisher

14.
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
Abraham Lincoln

15.
A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
Miguel de Cervantes

16.
There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.
Peter Reading

17.
What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
Marcel Proust

18.
Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
W. S. Gilbert

19.
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
Horace Walpole

20.
We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
Benjamin Franklin

21.
Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
W. S. Gilbert

22.
I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.
Doug Liman

23.
Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.
Arundhati Roy