Librarians Quote by Elizabeth Peters

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

— Barbara Mertz

“As a general rule, librarians are a kick in the pants socially, often full of good humor, progressive, and, naturally, well read”

— Bill Hall

“People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. They bring order to…

— Erica Olsen

“The librarian is a caricature of librarian - short white hair, horn-rimmed glasses, a bosom you could hide Christmas presents under and a New…

— Bart Yates

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.

— Anthony Horowitz

“Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably underestimated and largely underemployed.”

— Charles Medawar

“Libraries are like houses of worship: Whether or not you use them yourself, it's important to know that they are there. In many ways…

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

“You don’t look like the librarians I remember,” he told her. “We’ve changed. There was a whole press release issued about it, but we…

— Susan Mallery

Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be…

— Charlaine Harris

“I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian,” he said. He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are…

— Avi Steinberg

“There is a somewhat time-worn joke about people taking up library work because they like to read : the joke consisting of the fact…

— Mary Virginia Provines

I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that…

— Dorothea Benton Frank