Books Quote by Ambrose Bierce

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and…

— Ambrose Bierce

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

— Harper Lee

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore,…

— Anonymous

“Old books are like Old friends”

— George R.R. Martin

I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.

— Muriel Spark

“Getting old always means a hardening of the main trait of one's character.”

— Jean Guéhenno

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit…

— William Hazlitt

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

— Bernard Baruch

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

“The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father’s opinions and even into those of…

— John Updike

Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It…

— Prince Philip