Quotes from authors born in 1845
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.
William Kingdon Clifford
Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
Frederick Pollock
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.
William Kingdon Clifford
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
Daniel D. Palmer
To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.
Sarah Bernhardt
Lord Alfred Douglas 
Laurell K. Hamilton 
Greta Scacchi 
James Goldsmith 
Mel Brooks 
George S. Kaufman 
Arthur Erickson 
Don Hutson