Book Quote by Anatole France Download Open image “Never lend books, for no one ever returns them” — Anatole France ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Book reading Books Libraries and librarians Libraries and reading Libraries books and reading Library Library books Reading Reading books Reading habits Return Speed reading
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it! — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them. — Gilles Menage Copy Share Image
When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“I hate lending, or borrowing—if you want me to read a book, tell me about it, or buy me a copy outright. Your loaned… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
“Never loan a book. You might never get it back in the same condition that you loaned it.” — Monique Gordon Copy Share Image
Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous part of lending books lies in the returning. At such times, friendships hang by a thread. I look for agony, ecstasy,… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“No, let us not conquer the heavens. It is enough to have the power to do so. War engenders war, and victory defeat. God,… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“And what, above all, I blame in you is that you have not married in compliance with the law and given children to the… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. — Anatole France 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
