Quotes About Bibliophile

Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile. A what? asked Eragon. One who loves books, explained Jeod.

It was a small'ish bookstore. Yet is not any bookstore large to a bibliophile's heart?

I'm a huge reader... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.

Of course, she had paid for her books –most of them. Like almost every other bibliophile on the planet, Tess had books, borrowed from friends, that she had never returned, even as some of her favorite titles lingered in friends' homes, never to be seen again.

maybe you can curb your bibliophile tendencies for the moment? It's not like we don't have other...priorities....at present." "Nonsense," the bookseller said. "There's always time to appreciate a good book.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that M. Dirda is a sucker for anything bookish in the way of artwork.

Ich bin ein Bücherfresser

Cobb's well-deserved reputation as a bibliophile (he couldn't resist biographies of Napoleon) sometimes resulted in him receiving books instead of trophies or flowers.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen. Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.

To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.