Books Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

No furniture is so charming as books.

— Sydney Smith

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

— Horace Mann

Books do furnish a room.

— Anthony Powell

It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and…

— Terry Pratchett

“We have a lot of books in our house. They are our primary decorative motif-books in piles and on the coffee table, framed book…

— Louise Erdrich

Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the…

— Elisabeth of Wied

Most furniture is not made for people - they are made for the people who sell them.

— Laura Huxley

I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their…

— Robert Browning

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls

— Hermann Hesse

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.

— Natalie Morales