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The average introduction to almost any book is somewhat of a bore — Boris Karloff

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all. — Ellen Glasgow

I write for the beauty of the printed word
from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO — Anthony Antek

The negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative — Thomas Hardy

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface. — Philip Guedalla

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing! — Kenneth Oppel

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once? — Bill Willingham

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. — George Bernard Shaw

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction. — Ambrose Bierce

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all. — George Bernard Shaw

Amida's unimpeded light is the sun of wisdom that destroys the mind of darkness.
(Preface in Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment) — Kentetsu Takamori

I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I consider myself an atheist. — Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar

We all share the same origin, our mothers; all of us come in at the same door. - from the preface to 'Demian — Hermann Hesse

We not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular
way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased. — William Wordsworth

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I shall be perfectly frank with you," which is how politicians in both Delhi and Washington preface a real whopper of a lie: — Gary J. Bass

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Contents Preface — Anonymous

APPENDIX 2 THE PREFACE TO OLIVER TWIST AND THE NEWGATE NOVEL CONTROVERSY — Charles Dickens

Don't share your secrets if you preface them with 'just don't tell anybody. — Igor Babailov

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A preface is usually an excrescence on a good book, and a vain apology for a worthless one; — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors. — James Rollins

Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business. — Stacy Aumonier

APPENDIX A PREFACE TO THE CHEAP EDITION (1858) — Charles Dickens

One hardly knows which is the more appalling: the abjectness of the credulity or the flippancy of the scepticism.
- Shaw's Preface — George Bernard Shaw

Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion? — Bertrand Russell

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. — Christopher Hitchens

In the face of impermanence and death, it takes courage to love the things of this world and to believe that praising them is our noblest calling. — Joanna Macy

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. — Walter Scott

That's one of the best sets I've seen him play, although I should preface that by saying I haven't seen him play before. — John McEnroe

Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history. — Jordan Maxwell

I'm never exactly a slave to facts at the best of times. But does it matter? Who owns memories after all? — Lynn Barber

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. — Anne Bronte

Victory needs conflict as its preface. — Charles Spurgeon