Quotes About Books

There was indeed a " frightful lot" of books. The four walls of the library were plastered with them from floor to ceiling, save only where the door and the two windows insisted on living their own life, even though an illiterate one.

Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my hands on, but the memory that stays with me is that of my father reading the Jungle Books to us when we were young. Beautiful stories!

with large trunk full of highbrow books (Spengler etc.)', and Pound read The Decline of the West 'in return for tips on XV century'. He told his father that 'As S. seems to mean by "The West" a lot of things I dislike, I shd. like to accept his infantine belief that they are "declining"';

Within well-educated households, the critical transition from reading aloud to silent reading occurred during the fifteenth century. In time, other readers would master this liberating technique. Revolutionary in scope, silent reading let individuals scrutinize books with ease and speed. No less important, it allowed them to explore texts in isolation, apart from friends and family, or masters. Reading became vastly more personal, as more people pondered books and formed ideas on their own.

Paduan fikir, buku; himpun kuasa, kubu.

Antony could never resist another person's bookshelves. As soon as he went into the room, he found himself wandering round it to see what books the owner read, or (more likely) did not read, but kept for the air which they lent to the house.

What else? Well, she belongs to a book review club, one her mother helped start, that meets once a month in some Highland Park home. If it's a particularly interesting home, she'll go.

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

Her soul belongs ?to words and? books. Every time she ?reads she ?is home

Rendez-moi les cahiers. Je vais les enterrer quelque part dans la forêt. — Oui, enterrez-les. Ou, mieux encore, brûlez-les. C'est la seule solution pour que personne ne puisse les lire.

Hay vidas más tristes que el más triste de todos los libros".

the moral is perhaps that intellect and being well-read have no innate value to a contented or useful life. The number of hardbacks on your bedside table is in inverse proportion to the number of arched backs in your bed.

There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority of these letters will be in the Roman alphabet.

The purpose of books is not to be read. I buy books not to read them. I own a lot of books. I write books, I collect books, I think about books, I copy books, I pay for books – I'm in the book business. But I don't read books.

In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists.

Baz? kitaplardan hiç ayr?lmad?m çünkü beni hiç s?kmad?lar.

Hanya orang bodoh yang mau meminjamkan bukunya, tetapi hanya orang gila yang mau mengembalikan buku yang sudah dia pinjam.

She remembered the day that she first realized she would never be able to read every book in the world," said John Clement. "She cried for days.

Ah yet, ere I descend to the graveMay I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends, and many books, both true,Both wise, and both delightful too!

The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?