Book Quote by Anatole France

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

— Anatole France

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

— Agatha Christie

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

— Douglas Coupland

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

I believe with books as with money, you dont loan you get.

— Elizabeth Mitchell

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

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

— Anonymous

“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

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

“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

I'm much more willing to buy a novel electronically by someone I don't know. Because if halfway through I think, I don't really like…

— Susan Orlean

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

— Joe Queenan