Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Walter Besant

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English novelist Walter Besant.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Sir Walter Besant was an English novelist and historian. William Henry Besant was his brother, and another brother, Frank, was the husband of Annie Besant.

English - Novelist | August 14, 1836 - June 9, 1901

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Walter Besant

I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.

Walter Besant

There is a book into which some of us are happily led to look, and to look again, and never tire of looking. It is the Book of Man. You may open that book whenever and wherever you find another human voice to answer yours, and another human hand to take in your own.

Walter Besant

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

Walter Besant

Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.

Walter Besant