Anecdotes quotes

◆ Life is too short for a long story.

- Mary Wortley Montagu100

◆ When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

- Benjamin Disraeli99

◆ To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

- Lord Chesterfield99

◆ It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

- Italo Calvino99

◆ Hearing about something a hundred times is not as good as seeing it once.

- 99

◆ An unseasonable tale will always be in the mouth of the unwise.

- Apocrypha99

◆ The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

- Laurence Sterne99

◆ A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe99

◆ Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument

- Tryon Edwards99

◆ If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

- Anthony Holden99