575 Quotations with Books.
- 141. Benjamin Disraeli: An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks ...

- 142. Miguel de Cervantes: And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find ...

- 143. Horace: And may I live the remainder of my life... for myself; may there be plenty of bo ...

- 144. Jonathan Swift: Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it ...

- 145. Edward M. Forster: At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a c ...

- 146. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? ...

- 147. Dame Ethel Smyth: Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally ...

- 148. Graham Greene: Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, ...

- 149. John Wesley: Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of kn ...

- 150. Author Unknown: Books and friends should be few but good.

- 151. Walter Benjamin: Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

- 152. Jean Baptiste Moliere: Books and marriage go ill together.

- 153. Jeremy Collier: Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thoug ...

- 154. John Ruskin: Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all t ...

- 155. Benjamin Disraeli: Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing b ...

- 156. Edwin P. Whipple: Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

- 157. Richard De Bury: Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or ange ...

- 158. E.S. Barrett: Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times ...

- 159. John Milton: Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life i ...

- 160. Stephen Vincent Benet: Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

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