Book Quote by Gilles Menage

Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were…

— Daniel Pennac

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

— Anatole France

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

— Evan Esar

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as…

— Walter Benjamin

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

— Douglas Coupland

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent…

— Anatole France

“Books are essential to me. I cannot live without them, because I cannot live without reading. But, Arry has just said to me, you…

— Aidan Chambers

“The book borrower… proves himself to be an in venerate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his…

— Walter Benjamin

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

— Arnold Bennett

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the…

— Henry Miller

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.

— Walter Benjamin

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

— Charles Lamb