Books Quote by Anton Chekhov Download Open image ““I am a book-worm and a scholar, and am unfamiliar with practical affairs.”” — Anton Chekhov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.” — William Badke Copy Share Image
“I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.” — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
“Oh, but I’m a scholar. I enjoy things with curious properties, and stupidity is most interesting. The more you study it, the further it… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.” — Pai Kit Fai Copy Share Image
“What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I was by no means a scholar, simply an interested reader with nothing to do but live and learn.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“I also work here because I love books, because I'm inveterately curious, and because, like most librarians, I'm not well suited to anything else.… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
“There's lots of interesting things in books. And you get to meet people you might never know otherwise.” — Kiki Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.' They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.” — CLAMP Copy Share Image
“I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.” — Martin Booth Copy Share Image
“Books are, I find, the best provisions a man can take with him on life’s journey.” — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and up amusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments ,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“At the water's edge, barrels of pitch blazed like huge bonfires. Their reflection, crimson as the rising moon, crept to meet us in long,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are… — Anton Chekhov 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
