Book Quote by Jonathan Swift Download Open image “For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full...” — Jonathan Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Common Empty Inspirational
“Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“He is totally abandoned in the way he buys book after book, never to read a single one. I wouldn't mind if he used… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“It hardly mattered to him that [his] book was forgotten and that it served no use; and the question of its worth at any… — John Williams Copy Share Image
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Each reader is but one chapter in the life of a book, and unless he passes his knowledge on to others, it is as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“He felt as he always did when he finished a book — queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“All I can think is: His head is gone and I don’t know how to merge with the Book. ” — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“How could I be such an open book to him when, half the time, I had no idea what was milling around in his… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift 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
