Books Quote by Richard Francis Burton

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed…

— Richard Francis Burton

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

“...the perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written them.”

— René Descartes

The technique of the book and the technique carried by the figure of Scheherazade is one of opening the Sultan's mind. He's emblematic of…

— Marina Warner

“All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did…

— Tim Lebbon

“He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was covered from floor to…

— James Stephens

“As he learned more from his father in school he was led to reading every book he could find as long as it was…

— Sam Wellman

“that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of…

— Descartes

“His copy was full of lofty echoes: Greek Tragedy; Damocle's sword; manna from heaven; the myth of Sisyphus; the last of the Mohicans; hydra-headed…

— Tarun J. Tejpal

“She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred almost any source of information to the printed page; she had an immense…

— Henry James

“Books took, in her young life, the place of companions and childish games. She read a great deal without guidance or discrimination, and gained…

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

“A precious mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable…

— Emily Dickinson