Books Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of…

— Oscar Wilde

“he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“From my recent blog tour interview: I recently spent time updating my Goodreads page to include the names of authors whose works inspire me,…

— Barbara James

“The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever to him…

— Thomas Hughes

“He read with intensity and was passionately in love with every character, every turn of plot or twist of language. He made the characters…

— Sarah Ockler

“he soon formed this object into the hero of a romance, and determined to observe the offspring of his fancy, rather than the person…

— John William Polidori

“I tended to fall in love with characters in books. Most guys I went to school with were far too interested in sports or…

— Trisha Haddad

“It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.”

— Victor Hugo

“Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the…

— Rebecca Mead

“One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions.…

— David Hume

“Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed…

— Virginia Woolf

“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur”

— Jane Austen