Book Lover Quotes

49 quotes by 41 authors

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
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. — Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
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
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent. — George Gissing
It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding. — Samuel Johnson
The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries. — Isaac Barrow
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients. — Samuel Johnson
I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near. — John Donne
In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights. — Alexander Smith
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
Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature. — George Dyer
Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man. — William Godwin
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books. — Amos Bronson Alcott

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