Book Quote by Italian Proverb Download Open image “A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three” — Italian Proverb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Forbidden fruit
No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers. — Richard Heber Copy Share Image
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining,… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want… — Robertson Davies Copy Share
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end,… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Of two cowards, the one who finds the other out first has the advantage — Italian Proverb Copy Share Image
Proverbs bear age, and he who would do well may view himself in them as in a looking glass. — Italian Proverb Copy Share Image
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box — Italian Proverb Copy Share Image
Count your nights by stars, not shadows; count your life with smiles, not tears. — Italian Proverb Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image