Book Quote by Bob Hartley

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the…

— Hilary Mantel

I used to steal from the library, which is a crime and it's bad, but I just couldn't get enough books, and I also…

— Sara Pascoe

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and…

— John Locke

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

— Terry Goodkind

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages..

— Naomi Ragen

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may…

— E M Forster

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

— Ernest Hemingway

Books were safer than other people anyway.

— Neil Gaiman

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

— Charles Lamb

There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest…

— Carolyn Wells

The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of…

— Agnes Repplier