Posterity Quotations

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.

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

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have a place in posterity, while most women know that posterity is what happens when you no longer care. Women want to connect with others here and now; they couldn't care less about legacy!

The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.

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

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

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

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

Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!

Here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . .

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

Queen Victoria - this flabby, fat, flatulent looking scion and successor of the most ignoble line of Royal Georges - Her chief claim to the remembrance of posterity will be that she has the means of afflicting the English people with a most prolific

It's very important for a film like 'Capote.' It gives real posterity to a film. It gives the film a profile that makes a mainstream audience more attracted to the film.

Posterity is always just.

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

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.

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

And he made it a word to continue in his posterity that they may return.

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

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

Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.

Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

Regions Caesar never knew / Thy posterity shall sway.

We are always doing," says he, "something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic

No man ever walked down to posterity with so small a book under his arm.

Time will unveil all things to posterity.

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

Titles do not count with posterity.