To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Books Quotes
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 […]
Sir, my friend John Baynes used to say that the man who published a book without an index ought to be damned ten miles beyond Hell, where the Devil could not get for stinging nettles.
A book is the only immortality.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
