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title: "161 Old books Quotes by 142 authors"
description: "Browse 161 Old books quotes by 142 authors. Discover the best Old books sayings and thoughts."
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> [I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/i-m-still-old-fashioned-i-love-dusty-old-books-and-libraries/)

[Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/)

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> [“Old books are like Old friends”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-r-r-martin/old-books-are-like-old-friends/)

[George R.R. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-r-r-martin/)

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> [I love to both give and receive very old books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/i-love-to-both-give-and-receive-very-old-books/)

[Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/)

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> [Read two old books for every new one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/read-two-old-books-for-every-new-one/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roosevelt/i-am-rather-more-apt-to-read-old-books-than-new-ones/)

[Theodore Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roosevelt/)

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> [“Perhaps I have a strange affinity for old books.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renee-ahdieh/perhaps-i-have-a-strange-affinity-for-old-books/)

[Renee Ahdieh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renee-ahdieh/)

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> [Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-william-eliot/books-are-the-quietest-and-most-constant-of-friends/)

[Charles William Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-william-eliot/)

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> [I have this obsession with really cool, old books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/constance-zimmer/i-have-this-obsession-with-really-cool-old-books/)

[Constance Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/constance-zimmer/)

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> [“Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-evangelista/ereaders-were-a-great-convenience-but-nothing-could-beat-the-smell-of/)

[Kate Evangelista](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-evangelista/)

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> [“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/i-love-everything-that-is-old-old-friends-old-times-old-manners-old/)

[Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/)

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> [I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-lethem/i-prefer-old-books-and-find-them-more-relevant-i-dislike-new-books-it/)

[Jonathan Lethem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-lethem/)

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> [I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-ll-make-you-mine-lovers-said-in-old-books-they-never-said-i-ll-make/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

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> [Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-temple/who-ever-converses-among-old-books-will-be-hard-to-please-among-the/)

[William Temple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-temple/)

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> [“The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-flinn/the-notebook-smelled-the-way-old-books-do-like-dust-and-unrealized/)

[Alex Flinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-flinn/)

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> [I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-payne-rainsford-james/i-envy-them-those-monks-of-old-their-books-they-read-and-their-beads/)

[George Payne Rainsford James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-payne-rainsford-james/)

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> [I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/i-love-everything-that-s-old-old-friends-old-times-old-manners-old/)

[Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/)

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> [Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-baruch/old-books-that-have-ceased-to-be-of-service-should-no-more-be/)

[Bernard Baruch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-baruch/)

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> [“You are, of course, allowed to love food and music and champagne and rare sunny afternoons in October. You can love the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-haig/you-are-of-course-allowed-to-love-food-and-music-and-champagne-and/)

[Matt Haig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-haig/)

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> [You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvine-welsh/you-know-what-it-s-like-you-don-t-want-to-read-your-old-books-again/)

[Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irvine-welsh/)

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> [Age appears to be best in some things. Old wood best to burn. Old books best to read. Old rice best to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/age-appears-to-be-best-in-some-things-old-wood-best-to-burn-old-books/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The 'Backlisted' podcast describes itself as 'giving new life to old books'. In each episode, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hepworth/the-backlisted-podcast-describes-itself-as-giving-new-life-to-old/)

[David Hepworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hepworth/)

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> [“But when your heart is tired and dumb, your soul has need of ease, There’s none like the quiet folk who wait…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-widdemer/but-when-your-heart-is-tired-and-dumb-your-soul-has-need-of-ease/)

[Margaret Widdemer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-widdemer/)

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> [OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose-bierce/old-adj-in-that-stage-of-usefulness-which-is-not-inconsistent-with/)

[Ambrose Bierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose-bierce/)

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> [“The reading of old books enables us to avoid becoming passive captives of the Spirit of the Age by keeping “the clean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alister-e-mcgrath/the-reading-of-old-books-enables-us-to-avoid-becoming-passive/)

[Alister E. McGrath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alister-e-mcgrath/)

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> [“There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-ackroyd/there-is-a-camaraderie-that-grows-up-among-those-who-work-with-old/)

[Peter Ackroyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-ackroyd/)

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> [“This place might have been paradise, a treasure trove far greater than any to be found in a pirate yarn. Everywhere he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/this-place-might-have-been-paradise-a-treasure-trove-far-greater-than/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

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> [“often she had seemed to herself to be moving among those vanished figures of old books and pictures, an invisible ghost among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-wolf/often-she-had-seemed-to-herself-to-be-moving-among-those-vanished/)

[Virginia Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-wolf/)

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> [“You know, old books are a big problem for us. Old knowledge in general. We call it OK. Old knowledge, OK. Did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-sloan/you-know-old-books-are-a-big-problem-for-us-old-knowledge-in-general/)

[Robin Sloan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-sloan/)

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> [“There was nothing like the smell of books, particularly old books—that magical combination of oaky aged paper, the rich robustness of leather,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-y-hanna/there-was-nothing-like-the-smell-of-books-particularly-old-books-that/)

[H.Y. Hanna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-y-hanna/)

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> [ We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century \[...\] lies where we have never suspected it \[...\] The… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/we-may-be-sure-that-the-characteristic-blindness-of-the-twentieth/)

[C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/)

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> [The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/the-body-of-b-franklin-printer-like-the-cover-of-an-old-book-its/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-disraeli/some-will-read-only-old-books-as-if-there-were-no-valuable-truths-to/)

[Benjamin Disraeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-disraeli/)

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> [“Only the learned read old books, and... now... they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdom by doing so.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/only-the-learned-read-old-books-and-now-they-are-of-all-men-the-least/)

[C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/)

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> [“I bet Mrs Snapperly had no teeth and talked to herself, right?” said Miss Tick. “Yes. And she had a cat. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/i-bet-mrs-snapperly-had-no-teeth-and-talked-to-herself-right-said/)

[Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/)

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> [“I know this is one of the unthinkable taboos of our society, but I had discovered in myself a talent for a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/i-know-this-is-one-of-the-unthinkable-taboos-of-our-society-but-i-had/)

[Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/)

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> [“Employment in the Small Bookstore" Twelve Poems, 1975 The dust is almost motionless in this narrowness, this stillness, yet how unlike a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/employment-in-the-small-bookstore-twelve-poems-1975-the-dust-is/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-johnson/)

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> [“I have always preferred the folly of the passions to the wisdom of indifference. But just because my own passions are not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatole-france/i-have-always-preferred-the-folly-of-the-passions-to-the-wisdom-of/)

[Anatole France](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anatole-france/)

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> [“Who are you? She asked silently, as she laid away the collector's quotations, his drawings, his scraps of famous poetry: "Come live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allegra-goodman/who-are-you-she-asked-silently-as-she-laid-away-the-collector-s/)

[Allegra Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allegra-goodman/)

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> [“As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-paul-curtis/as-soon-as-i-got-into-the-library-i-closed-my-eyes-and-took-a-deep/)

[Christopher Paul Curtis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-paul-curtis/)

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> [“Her father's old books were all she could command, and these she wore out with much reading. Inheriting his refined tastes, she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louisa-may-alcott/her-father-s-old-books-were-all-she-could-command-and-these-she-wore/)

[Louisa May Alcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louisa-may-alcott/)

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                        "text": "“I bet Mrs Snapperly had no teeth and talked to herself, right?” said Miss Tick. “Yes. And she had a cat. And a squint,” said Tiffany. And then it all came out in a rush: “And so after he vanished, they went to her cottage and they looked in the oven and they dug up her garden and they threw stones at her old cat until it died and they turned her out of her cottage and piled u pall her old books in the middle of the room and set fire to them and burned the place to the ground and everyone said she was an old witch.” “They burned the books,” said Miss Tick in a flat voice. “Because they said they had old writing in them,” said Tiffany. “And pictures of stars.” “And when you went to look, did they?” said Miss Tick. Tiffany suddenly felt cold. “How did you know?” she said. “I’m good at listening. Well, did they?” Tiffany sighed. “Yes, I went to the cottage next day, and some of the pages, you know, had kind of floated up in the heat? And I found a part of one, and it had all old lettering and gold and blue edging. And I buried her cat.” “You buried the cat?” “Yes! Someone had to!”",
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                        "text": "“Employment in the Small Bookstore\" Twelve Poems, 1975 The dust is almost motionless in this narrowness, this stillness, yet how unlike a coffin it is, sometimes letting a live one in, sometimes out and the air, though paused, impends not a thing, the silence isn't sinister, and in fact not much goes on at the Ariel Book Shop today, no one weeps in the back room full of books, old books, no one is tearing the books to shreds, in fact I am merely sitting here talking to no one, no one being here, and I am blameless, More, I am grateful for the job, I am fond of the books and touch them, I am grateful that King St. goes down to the river, and that the rain is lovely, the afternoon green. If the soft falling away of the afternoon is all there is, it is nearly enough, just let me hear the beautiful clear voice of a woman in song passing toward silence, and then that will be all for me at five o'clock I will walk down to see the untended sailing yachts of the Potomac bobbing hopelessly in another silence, the small silence that gets to be a long one when the past stops talking to you because it is dead, and still you listen, hearing just the tiny agonies of old boats on a cloudy day, in cloudy water. Talk to it. Men are talking to it by Cape Charles, for them it's the same silence with fishing lines in their hands. We are all looking at the river bearing the wreckage so far away. We wonder how the river ever came to be so grey, and think that once there were some very big doings on this river, and now that is all over.”",
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                        "text": "“I have always preferred the folly of the passions to the wisdom of indifference. But just because my own passions are not of that sort which burst out with violence to devastate and kill, the common mind is not aware of their existence. Nevertheless, I am greatly moved by them at times, and it has more than once been my fate to lose my sleep for the sake of a few pages written by some forgotten monk or printed by some humble apprentice of Peter Schöffer. And if these fierce enthusiasms are slowly being quenched in me, it is only because I am being slowly quenched myself. Our passions are ourselves. My old books are Me. I am just as old and thumb-worn as they are.”",
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                        "text": "“Who are you? She asked silently, as she laid away the collector's quotations, his drawings, his scraps of famous poetry: \"Come live with me and be my love...\" interleaved with menus: 'oysters, fish stew, tortoise in its shell, bread from the oven, honey from the honeycomb.' The books were unsplattered but much fingered, their pages soft with turning and re-turning, like collections of old fairy tales. Often Jess thought of Rapunzel and golden apples and enchanted gardens. She thought of Ovid, and Dante, and Cervantes, and the Pre-Raphaelites, for sometimes McClintock pictured his beloved eating, and sometimes sleeping in fields of poppies, and once throned like Persephone, with strawberry vines entwined in her long hair.”",
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                        "text": "“Her father's old books were all she could command, and these she wore out with much reading. Inheriting his refined tastes, she found nothing to attract her in the society of the commonplace and often coarse people about her. She tried to like the buxom girls whose one ambition was to \"get married,\" and whose only subjects of conversation were \"smart bonnets\" and \"nice dresses.\" She tried to believe that the admiration and regard of the bluff young farmers was worth striving for; but when one well-to-do neighbor laid his acres at her feet, she found it impossible to accept for her life's companion a man whose soul was wrapped up in prize cattle and big turnips.”",
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