« All Seduce Us Quotes
·
Alberto Manguel's Page
Seduce Us Quotes by Alberto Manguel
1 Seduce Us quote by Alberto Manguel
More Quotes by Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel has 84 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
-
A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
-
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
-
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the…
-
The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…
-
And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something…
-
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that…
-
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage…
-
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,…
-
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered…
-
I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the…
-
The telling of stories creates the real world.
See all 84 quotes by Alberto Manguel »
More Seduce Us Quotes
Popular Seduce Us quotes from across the collection:
-
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if…
— Lord Chesterfield
-
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from…
— George Ripley
-
In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let…
— Baron de Montesquieu
-
The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's…
— Henri Nouwen
-
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at…
— John Walford
-
We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is…
— Howard Barker
-
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us…
— Alberto Manguel
-
The will to truth! That will which is yet to seduce us into many a venture, that famous truthfulness of which all…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
See all Seduce Us Quotes »
Browse Alberto Manguel Quotes by Category