Books Quote by Alexander Pope Download Open image ““Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.”” — Alexander Pope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Memory Poetry
“He wondered what book he might be reading when he finally breathed his last, and determined to grab a good one as soon as… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
“He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I listened intently. He chose to skim past the parts that would put his ridiculous worries to rest, and I chose to snatch the… — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
“He can’t remember, but he still knows exactly where to find it on his bookshelf, books are willing to wait, he says whenever visitors… — Jenny Erpenbeck Copy Share Image
“The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his memory, from… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“It feels like a thief in slow motion, stealing the man I knew one memory at a time.” — Daniel Ruczko Copy Share Image
“It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his darker memories had sunk to the underbelly of his past and been as good as lost forever. But without conscious instruction, memory had edited and enlarged the finest moments of his life and stored them like… — Nanci Kincaid Copy Share
“All I had to do was open a book - to see the stories bleeding from page to page. To see the memories etched… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“How could I be such an open book to him when, half the time, I had no idea what was milling around in his… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
