Old Books Quotes
37 quotes by 35 authors
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
— Bernard Baruch
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Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will…
— Gerald Durrell
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It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer…
— Amelia B. Edwards
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Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need…
— C.S. Lewis
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Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one…
— Gaston Bachelard
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The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading…
— C.S. Lewis
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I love to both give and receive very old books.
— Augusten Burroughs
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As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on…
— Christopher Paul Curtis
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We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is…
— C.S. Lewis
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous…
— Marilynne Robinson
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
— Anne Fadiman
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Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting…
— Alberto Manguel
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opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.
— Diane Setterfield
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The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a…
— Laura Whitcomb
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Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books
— Aravind Adiga
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There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
— Henry Ford
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Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what…
— Lauren Willig
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...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Read two old books for every new one.
— J I Packer
Who Wrote These Old Books Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 37 Old Books Quotes, led by these top contributors: