Posterity quotes

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
-- Elmore Leonard

#Writing #Bucks #Posterity

Time will unveil all things to posterity.
-- Euripides

#Posterity

You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.
-- Henry Highland Garnet

#Slave #Posterity

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

#Kind #Posterity

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

#Degenerates #Ancestor #Posterity

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

#Critics #Posterity

Posterity is always just.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Reputation #Posterity

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

#Art #Work #Posterity

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

#Writing #Posterity

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.
-- Pierre de Fermat

#Science #Ancient #Posterity

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.
-- Pierre-Jean de Beranger

#Tears #Glory #Posterity

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?
-- Thomas Gray

#May #Done #Posterity

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

#Scared #Studios #Posterity