Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconsciously as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug.
Books Quotes
Books are the curse of the human race.
The easiest books are generally the best; for whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Many thanks; I shall lose no time in reading your book.
A good novel tells us the truth about it’s hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending.
Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
People are expected to read (Vanity Fair) during their university years. But you are mistaken if you think you read Thackeray’s book then; you read a lesser book of your own. It should be read again when you are thirty-six, which is the age of Thackeray when he wrote it. It should be read for […]
