"Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should……" — Samuel Johnson

More Bookish Quotes

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• I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life. — Ray Bradbury
• Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact,… — John Donne
• I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years… — Vera-Ellen
• Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge.… — Sathya Sai Baba
• Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand… — C W Ceram
• I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on… — Piper Perabo
• To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky,… — John Cowper Powys
• There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One… — Raj Patel
• Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to… — Germaine Greer
• I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. — Richard Rorty
• I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on… — Natalie Merchant
• Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied.… — Christopher Bram

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