Book Quote by Augustine Birrell Download Open image “Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.” — Augustine Birrell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Burning
I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
You told us over and over that you don’t think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you’d probably die before… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
One of the scandalous things I did was as I read them afterward I would burn them. I loved them, but for practical reasons… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too. — Heinrich Heine 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
![“One of the scandalous things I did was as I read them afterward I would burn them. I loved them, but for practical reasons I had to lighten the load. I burned favorites, like William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying." There's a whole list in the back of my book. It's me,[Adolf] Hitler, [Benito]…” quote by Cheryl Strayed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c5f/cheryl-strayed-605_book_one-of-the-scandalous-things-i-did-was-a_2945423.jpg)
