All things Quote by Augustine Birrell

Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme…

— Augustine Birrell

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

— Augustine Birrell

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an…

— Augustine Birrell

Libraries are not made, they grow.

— Augustine Birrell

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

— Augustine Birrell

“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”

— Augustine Birrell

“An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which is is possible to…

— Augustine Birrell

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

— Augustine Birrell

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

— Augustine Birrell

It is the Mass the matters.

— Augustine Birrell

Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.

— Augustine Birrell

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

— Augustine Birrell