Posterity Quotes
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.34, University of Texas Press
Horace Binney Wallace (1856). “Literary criticisms and other papers”, p.340
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
Address on receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award at the UN Delegates Dining Room, October 19, 1999.
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
The Spectator no. 583, 20 Aug. 1714
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly (1998). “The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes”, p.582, UPNE
Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.555, Wordsworth Editions
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2339, Modern Library
What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.512, Jester House Publishing
Horace Walpole, George Vertue (1798). “The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford ...”, p.370
Benjamin Franklin (1900). “The life of Benjamin Franklin”
Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.
Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.99, Penguin Books India
