Alexander McQueen
Fashion Designer
"I'm interested in designing for posterity."
Posterity quotes
Posterity
23 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
Euripides
Playwright
"Time will unveil all things to posterity."
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"An author can have nothing truly his own but his style."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past."
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"Posterity is always just."
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"Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us"
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"A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity."
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"We are a kind of posterity in respect to them."
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"What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art."
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