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Posterity Quotes

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

Authors on Posterity Quotes: W. S. Gilbert Hortense Calisher Benjamin Franklin Jorge Luis Borges Peter Reading Walter Cronkite Doug Liman Joseph Addison Abraham Lincoln Thomas Paine Alexander McQueen Miguel de Cervantes Elmore Leonard Madame de Stael Anton Chekhov Horace Binney Wallace Euripides Marcel Proust Arundhati Roy Horace Walpole Benjamin Disraeli Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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.
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
Walter Cronkite

6.
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Joseph Addison

7.
Titles do not count with posterity.
Thomas Paine

8.
Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.
Anton Chekhov

9.
Time will unveil all things to posterity.
Euripides

10.
Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
Madame de Stael

11.
An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
Benjamin Disraeli

12.
Posterity is always just.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

18.
Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.
Arundhati Roy

19.
What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
Marcel Proust

20.
Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
W. S. Gilbert

21.
We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
Benjamin Franklin

22.
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
Horace Walpole

23.
Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
W. S. Gilbert