Bibliophile Quote by Holless Wilbur Allen

“Dispersal was a conscious strategy of the plunderers. Only by destroying these collections could they build up new ones. Many of these libraries were…

— Anders Rydell

A library is a growing organism.

— S. R. Ranganathan

Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book!

— Karen Marie Moning

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

— Ray Bradbury

People are living books. The real library of life is community.

— Anonymous

I'm the farthest thing from a bibliophile. I purge my collection regularly: If I haven't read a book in a couple of years, I…

— H. W. Brands

Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

— Charles Lamb

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.

— George Dyer

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves…

— Anonymous

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high…

— Anonymous

“One of the powerful functions of a library — any library — lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are…

— Richard F. Thomas

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy,…

— Caroline Kennedy