Book Quote by Thomas Love Peacock

A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.

— Thomas Love Peacock

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

— Thomas Love Peacock

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable…

— Robertson Davies

Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion,…

— Candace Bushnell

“A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.”

— Anonymous

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice,…

— J. D. Salinger

“a man who read too many books and disagreed with everybody”

— Seamus Deane

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.

— Ernie J Zelinski

“A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse…

— Samuel Johnson

An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world…

— Hesketh Pearson

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really…

— Havelock Ellis

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors

— Benjamin Franklin