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Quotes about Books


Next o'er his books his eyes begin to roll,
In pleasing memory of all he stole.

Alexander Pope

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil
O'er books consum'd the midnight oil?

John Gay

An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!

James Thomson

Books that you may carry to the fire and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

Samuel Johnson

Are these the choice dishes the Doctor has sent us?
Is this the great poet whose works so content us?
This Goldsmith's fine feast, who has written fine books?
Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks?

David Garrick

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And Learning wiser grow without his books.

William Cowper

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

William Cowper

Books cannot always please, however good;
Minds are not ever craving for their food.

George Crabbe

Some books are lies frae end to end.

Robert Burns

He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.

Robert Hall

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books,
Or surely you 'll grow double!
Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks!
Why all this toil and trouble?

William Wordsworth

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good.
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

William Wordsworth

Books which are no books.

Charles Lamb

My only books
Were woman's looks,--
And folly's all they 've taught me.

Thomas Moore

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books.

Thomas Carlyle

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

Thomas Carlyle

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

Thomas Carlyle

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli

Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.

Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli

Books are sepulchres of thought.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And I have written three books on the soul,
Proving absurd all written hitherto,
And putting us to ignorance again.

Robert Browning

Some books are drenchèd sands
On which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,
Like a wrecked argosy.

Alexander Smith

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