Book Quote by Augustine Birrell Download Open image “Great is bookishness and the charm of books.” — Augustine Birrell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Charm
“The great thing about books was the solidity of the written word. You might change and your reading might change as a result, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific. — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort of person… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good books are like friends which are deep and meaningful and you love to spend time with them. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.” — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love. — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. — Augustine Birrell 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
