Collectibles Quote by Adam Nevill

“All was not lost when the Library at Alexandria was burned”

— Mark Wallace Maguire

“Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells…

— William Golding

“I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.”

— Anonymous

The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and…

— Edward Gibbon

“I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of…

— Bauvard

“A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.”

— Thomas Fuller

“THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a…

— Tom Stoppard

“Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.”

— Heinrich Heine

“I worked transferring books to computer discs, to cut down on storage space and replacement costs, they said. Discers, we called ourselves. We called…

— Margaret Atwood

“This will destroy that. The book will kill the edifice.”

— Victor Hugo

“books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.”

— Joel C. Rosenberg

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”

— Heinrich Heine