Affection Quote by David Hume

Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without…

— Herman Melville

“Perhaps if by chance I was seen arranging the shop window in my underpants, some lady in need of strong literary emotions would be…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

— Patrick Rothfuss

What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.

— Carine Roitfeld

“Books—even erotic ones … especially erotic ones—are simply reflections of the human soul. Sometimes they're silly and sometimes they're exaggerated, but it's through that…

— C.M. Stunich

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which cannot be stilled save…

— Robertson Davies

Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others…

— Robertson Davies

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

— Maurice Sendak

“A humour of reading books, except those of devotion or housewifery, is apt to turn a woman's brain... All affectation of knowledge beyond what…

— Jonathan Swift

Most books are bought by women.

— Gloria Steinem