Booksellers Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Booksellers Generous Men
The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
“Booksellers in the gross are taken for little better than a pack of knaves and atheists.” — John Dunton Copy Share Image
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the number of Books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk… — Alain De Botton Copy Share Image
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
“Booksellers in the gross are taken for little better than a pack of knaves and atheists.” — John Dunton Copy Share Image
I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Overall, I'd say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books. — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
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