Book Lover Quotes
49 quotes by 41 authors
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of…
— Joseph Addison
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.
— Jan Morris
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Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who…
— Robertson Davies
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul…
— Jackie Collins
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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.
— George Gissing
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It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.
— Samuel Johnson
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The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
— Isaac Barrow
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Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
— Samuel Johnson
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I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.
— John Donne
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In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.
— Alexander Smith
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It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be…
— John Hill Burton
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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the…
— Alexander Smith
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Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.
— George Dyer
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Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
— William Godwin
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Who Wrote These Book Lover Quotes
41 authors contributed a total of 49 Book Lover Quotes, led by these top contributors: