Books Quote by Charles Dickens

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

“He purred the words, as if his tongue was lazy and had all the time in the world to wrap around each and every…

— Blue Kincaid

“One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions.…

— David Hume

“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have…

— Marcel Proust

“Though never losing his taste for seclusion, he developed a talent for getting on with people in all walks of life, and those who…

— Anthony Stevens

“...he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how not only…

— William Faulkner

“Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation – a meagre entertainment for a young man who…

— Henry James

“He learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke - the language that everyone on earth was capable of…

— Paulo Coelho

“He preferred his own judgments and, if the truth were told, his own company, too. That was how he had always been, even as…

— Benjamin Black

“But the sheep had taught him something even more important: that there was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the…

— Paulo Coelho

“His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and…

— Mary Shelley

“My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and…

— Jonathan Swift