Black Quote by Isabel Burton

“There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes the things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Books give us pleasure not because they make us comfortable, though some good ones may, but because they entertain us, they make us laugh,…

— William McPherson

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

— Alexander Pope

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

— Francis Quarles

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

— Thomas Hood

“I let no chance go by untaken. I never hesitated to follow where my curiosity beckoned. I willingly went where there was danger in…

— Gary Jennings

“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books…

— Edwin Booth

“And the voice spoke even more deliberately: '...but remember what is under the ocean of clouds: eternity.' And suddenly that tranquil world, the world…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Nothing good was withheld from me, even moral guidance was provided as my uncle read to me nightly out of a King James red-letter…

— Sara Niles