Bibliophiles Quote by Natalie Clifford Barney Download Open image “I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.” — Natalie Clifford Barney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bibliophiles Human beings Humans Looks
“Bibliophiles and Swimmers are most Beautiful Creatures in the Universe !” — bkjagadish Copy Share Image
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting… — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
“There are many greedy and clever human animals in this world, but few human beings. Authentic human beings are so rare that I would… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share Image
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment. — Andreas Gursky Copy Share Image
Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
“Bibliophiles and Swimmers are most Beautiful Creatures in the Universe !” — bkjagadish Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless we cherish all books, especially the unread ones, for who knows what secrets they might yield one day? —p.397, as by Larry Zagorski,… — Jake Arnott Copy Share Image
A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones. — Will Thomas Copy Share Image
“Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones. He'll often… — Mikita Brottman Copy Share Image
“I'm so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again on trains,… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.” — Willie van Peer Copy Share Image
Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
