| Author (number of quotes) | Description |
| Ba |
| B. DeMille, Cecil (1) | American director, producer and actor |
| Babbage, Charles (2) | English mathematician, philosopher, inventor |
| Babcock, Maltbie Davenport (1) | American clergyman and writer |
| Babits, Mihály (1) | Hungarian poet, author and translator |
| Bach, Richard (19) | American author |
| Bachelard, Gaston (2) | French philosopher |
| Bacon, Francis (19) | English philosopher, statesman |
| Bacon, Roger (2) | English philosopher |
| Bagehot, Walter (2) | English businessman, author and journalist |
| Bagnold, Enid (1) | British author |
| Bailey, Pearl (3) | American actress |
| Baker, Russell (1) | American writer |
| Baker, Simon (1) | Australian actor |
| Balassi, Bálint (2) | Hungarian poet |
| Baldwin, Faith (1) | American author |
| Baldwin, James (3) | American novelist |
| Bale, Christian (2) | English-American actor |
| Ballard, Duane Robert (1) | American professor of oceanography |
| Balzac, Honoré de (2) | French author |
| Bancroft, George (1) | American historian and statesman |
| Bandura, Albert (1) | Canadian-born American psychologist |
| Bangs, Richard (1) | American author and television personality |
| Banksy (1) | English-based graffiti artist |
| Bardem, Javier (1) | Spanish actor |
| Bardot, Brigitte (1) | French actress and singer |
| Barker, Dan (2) | American activist, author and musician |
| Barnes, Albert (1) | |
| Barreau, Nicolas (2) | French author |
| Barrie, J. M. (2) | Scottish author and dramatist |
| Barrow, John D. (1) | English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician |
| Barry, Dave (11) | American author |
| Barrymore, Drew (6) | American actress |
| Barthes, Roland (1) | French literary theorist, philosopher, critic |
| Bartlett, Bo (1) | American painter |
| Bartók, Béla (3) | Hungarian composer and pianist |
| Barzun, Jacques (1) | French-born American historian |
| Basho, Matsuo (1) | Japanese poet |
| Bates, Daisy (1) | American civil rights activist, publisher and writer |
| Baudelaire, Charles (3) | French poet |
| Bauer, Joan (1) | |
| Baumgartner, Felix (1) | Austrian skydiver |
| Bausch, William J. (1) | |
| Baxter, Beverly (1) | Canadian-English journalist |
| Baye, Betty Winston (1) | |
| Be |
| Beagle, Peter S. (1) | American author |
| Beatty, Paul (1) | American author |
| Beauvoir, Simone de (2) | French author and philosopher |
| Beckett, Samuel (2) | Irish novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet |
| Beecher, Henry Ward (15) | American clergyman |
| Beerbohm, Max (1) | English essayist, parodist |
| Beethoven, Ludwig van (2) | German composer |
| Bejar, Hada (1) | actor |
| Belfort, Jordan (1) | American author, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker |
| Bell, Alexander Graham (1) | Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator |
| Bell, Rob (1) | American author and pastor |
| Bellah, Robert Neelly (1) | American sociologist |
| Bellamy, Matthew James (1) | English musician, composer and singer |
| Belloc, Hilaire (1) | French-born English poet |
| Bennett, Alan (2) | British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author |
| Bennett, Bo (2) | pen name of Robert Bennett, American businessman and author |
| Bennington, Chester (1) | American musician |
| Benson, Edward Frederic (1) | English novelist, biographer and short story writer |
| Berenson, Bernard (1) | American art historian |
| Berger, John (1) | English art critic, novelist |
| Bergman, Ingrid (4) | Swedish actress |
| Bergson, Henri (1) | French philosopher |
| Berkus, Rusty (1) | American author |
| Berle, Milton (1) | American comedian and actor |
| Berlin, Irving (1) | American composer |
| Bernard, Claude (1) | French physiologist |
| Berra, Yogi (1) | American baseball player |
| Berry, Wendell (1) | American novelist, poet |
| Bertschinger, Edmund (1) | American physicist at MIT |
| Beston, Henry (1) | American author and scientist |
| Betjeman, John (1) | English author and poet |
| Betti, Ugo (1) | Italian judge |
| Bezos, Jeff (1) | American businessman |
| Bh |
| Bharat, Krishna (1) | Indian research scientist |
| Bi |
| Bialik, Mayim (2) | American actress and neurologist |
| Bible (3) | a canonical collection of texts sacred in Judaism and Christianity |
| Bieber, Justin (1) | |
| Bieber, Justin Drew (2) | Canadian singer |
| Bierce, Ambrose (4) | |
| Biersack, Andy (1) | American musician, composer and actor |
| Billings, Josh (7) | American comedian |
| Binmore, Ken (1) | British mathematician and economist |
| Binoche, Juliette (1) | French actress |
| Bl |
| Black, Holly (2) | American writer and editor |
| Blaine, David (1) | American magician |
| Blair, Tony (1) | British politician |
| Blake, Eubie (1) | American composer, lyricist and pianist |
| Blake, William (7) | English poet and painter |
| Blanchett, Cate (1) | Australian actress and director |
| Bloom, Allan (1) | |
| Bloomfield, Harold (1) | American psychiatrist and author |
| Bloomingdale, Teresa (1) | |
| Blunt, Emily (1) | English actress |
| Bo |
| Bocelli, Andrea (1) | Italian singer |
| Boghossian, Peter (3) | American philosopher |
| Bohr, Niels (9) | Danish physicist |
| Bombeck, Erma (6) | American comedian |
| Bon, Simon Le (1) | English musician |
| Bon Jovi, Jon (2) | American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor |
| Bonaparte, Napoleon (6) | French military and political leader |
| Bono (2) | Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and businessman |
| Boom, Corrie ten (1) | Dutch Christian author |
| Boone, Pat (1) | pen name of Charles Eugene Boone, American singer, actor and author |
| Boorstin, Daniel J. (2) | American historian, lawyer and author |
| Boosler, Elaine (1) | American comedian |
| Borge, Victor (2) | Danish comedian, conductor and pianist |
| Borland, Hal (3) | American author |
| Borlaug, Norman Ernest (1) | American agronomist, and humanitarian |
| Born, Max (1) | Nobel-díjas German physicist |
| Bott, Raoul (1) | Hungarian mathematician |
| Boutroux, Pierre (1) | French mathematician |
| Bovee, Christian Nestell (3) | American author |
| Bowen, Elizabeth (1) | English-Irish-born author |
| Bowie, David (3) | English musician, actor and producer |
| Boyd, Danah (1) | American social media scholar |
| Boyle, Robert (1) | Irish-English physicist and chemist |
| Börne, Ludwig (1) | German author |
| Br |
| Bracken, Peg (1) | American author |
| Bradbury, Ray (4) | American fantasy, horror and science fiction author |
| Bradley, Charles (1) | American singer |
| Bradley, Omar Nelson (1) | American general |
| Bragg, William Henry (1) | English physicist and chemist |
| Brakeall, Linda (1) | |
| Brando, Marlon (1) | American actor |
| Branson, Richard (1) | English businessman |
| Braque, Georges (1) | French painter and sculptor |
| Brashares, Ann (1) | American author |
| Bray, Libba (5) | American author |
| Bray, Thomas (1) | English clergyman |
| Breathnach, Sarah Ban (2) | American author |
| Brecht, Bertolt (1) | |
| Bresson, Robert (1) | French director |
| Brighton, Henry (1) | Artificial Intelligence researcher |
| Brilliant, Ashleigh (4) | cartoonist |
| Brinkley, David (1) | |
| Brisbane, Arthur (2) | |
| Brodsky, Joseph (1) | |
| Brody, Adrien (4) | American actor and film producer |
| Brogan, Denis William (1) | English author and historian |
| Bronowski, Jacob (2) | English mathematician, biologist |
| Bronson, Po (1) | American author and journalist |
| Bronte, Charlotte (6) | English author |
| Brooks, Michael (1) | English author |
| Brown, Dan (5) | American author |
| Brown, Derren (1) | English magician and author |
| Brown, H. Jackson (10) | American author |
| Brown, Les (3) | American author |
| Brown, Pam (1) | Australian author |
| Brown, Rita Mae (3) | American writer |
| Browne, Thomas (2) | English author |
| Browning, Robert (3) | English poet |
| Bruno, Giordano (1) | Italian philosopher |
| Bryan, William Jennings (1) | American politician |
| Bryson, Bill (1) | American author |
| Bu |
| Buddha (9) | Spiritual teacher |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster (1) | American author |
| Bukowski, Charles (17) | American author |
| Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (2) | English author, poet, politician |
| Bunyan, John (1) | English-born author and clergyman |
| Burgess, Anthony (2) | English author, poet, composer, and translator |
| Burgess, Frank Gelett (2) | |
| Burke, Edmund (3) | |
| Burns, George (5) | Amerikai author, comedian |
| Burroughs, Augusten (4) | |
| Burroughs, John (1) | |
| Burroughs, William S. (3) | |
| Burton, Robert (1) | English scientist and clergyman |
| Burton, Tim (4) | American director |
| Butcher, Jim (2) | American author |
| Butler, Brett (1) | American actress |
| Butler, Nicholas Murray (1) | American philosopher |
| Butler, Samuel (7) | English author |
| By |
| Byas, Don (1) | American musician |