Augustine Birrell Quotes
16 quotes
in 168 categories
-
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
-
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act…
-
Libraries are not made, they grow.
-
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.
-
That great dust-heap called 'history'.
-
Is this true or only clever?
-
Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be…
-
History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
-
Few men can afford to be angry.
-
Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.
-
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste,…
-
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
-
I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past.
-
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible…
-
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
Browse Augustine Birrell Quotes by Category