Book Quote by Ernestine Rose

Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.

— Aldus Manutius

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read…

— Oscar Wilde

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are…

— Alan Keyes

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.

— Richard de Bury

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity…

— Joseph Addison

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public…

— Charles Nodier

Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.

— Ray Bradbury

Books are the curse of the human race.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters, defilers, the…

— Virginia Woolf