Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books? — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on” — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the way I came upon a mews with a small sign on the entrance gate addressed to the passing world. The sign… — Helene Hanff Copy Share
My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom… — Helene Hanff Copy Share
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. — Helene Hanff Copy Share
“I houseclean my books every spring and throw out those I'm never going to read again like I throw out clothes I'm never going… — Helene Hanff Copy Share
It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on. — Helene Hanff Copy Share
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone… — Helene Hanff Copy Share
I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller coming out… — Helene Hanff Copy Share
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend… — Helene Hanff Copy Share
I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book. — Helene Hanff Copy Share
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my… — Helene Hanff Copy Share
“Please write and tell me about London, I live for the day when I step off the boat-train and feel its dirty sidewalks under… — Helene Hanff Copy Share
I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books.… — Helene Hanff Copy Share
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able… — Helene Hanff Copy Share
If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much. — Helene Hanff Copy Share
Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all. — Helene Hanff Copy Share
![“I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn.” quote by Helene Hanff](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b3a/helene-hanff-17131_anthology_i-ll-have-mine-the-book-lovers-anthology_3040546.jpg)
