Books Quote by Roswell Field

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Of course, as everyone knows, neither my five books nor any five hundred books are sufficient to silence and pertinacity. It is the glory…

— Augustine of Hippo

“This book is dedicated to my brilliant and beautiful wife without whom I would be nothing. She always comforts and consoles, never complains or…

— Albert Malvino

“...being daunted by her father in every intellectual attempt, she read every book that came in her way, almost with as much delight as…

— Elizabeth Gaskell Wives and Daughters

“These books...," she begins, and stops. I am frightened for her, for myself decades from now, struggling to retain dignity with two strangers as…

— Deborah Meyler

“We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions.”

— Henry Fielding

“...she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularise, mentioned such works by our…

— Jane Austen

“But how could she have forgotten who he was—a man who could lose himself in a single book, not to mention a world-class, open-stack…

— Robert Masello

“She remembered her books in the moments of worst sorrow, especially the ones that were made for her and the one that saved her…

— Markus Zusak

“How can you keep up with her, this woman who is always reading another book besides the one before her eyes, a book that…

— Italo Calvino

“Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the human race.…

— Christopher Morley

“Books may fill a woman's head, but love must fill her heart.”

— Elizabeth O'Donnelly