Author: Montaigne

Cited by

• Felix J. Palma (1)
  • IN: The Map of the Sky (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable.
    FROM: Essays, (1595), Book, France
• Carlos Fuentes (1)
  • IN: The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: La premeditation de la mort est premeditation de la liberte.
    FROM: Essays, (1580), Essay, France
• Leonardo Sciascia (1)
  • IN: Equal Danger (1971) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: One must do as the animals do, who erase every footprint in front of their lair.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Marguerite Yourcenar (1)
  • IN: A coin in nine hands (1934) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: To abandon one's life for a dream is to know its true worth.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Lady Morgan Sydney (1)
  • IN: The Book of the Boudoir (1829) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Je n'enseigne pas; je raconte.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Catharine Maria Sedwick (1)
  • IN: The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America (1836) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Un notable exemple de la forcenée curiosité de notre nature, s'amusant se préoccuper des choses futures, comme sielle n'avoit pas assez à faire à désirer les présentes..
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And whereas all the other things, whether beast or vessel, that enter into the dreadful gulf of this monster's (whale's) mouth, are immediately lost and swallowed up, the sea-gudgeon retires into it in great security, and there sleeps.
    FROM: Apology for Raimond Sebond, (1576), Essay, France
• Eric Ambler (1)
  • IN: Journey into Fear (1968) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Verily I have seene divers become mad and senseless for feare: yea and in him, who is most settled and best resolved, it is certaine that whilest his fit continueth, it begetteth many strange dazelings, and terrible amazements in him.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Wendy Perriam (1)
  • IN: Lying (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If, like truth, the lie had but one face, we would be on better terms. For we would accept as certain the opposite of what the liar would say. But the reverse of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
    FROM: Essays, (1580), Book, France