Books Quote by Victor Hugo

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

— Victor Hugo

A library implies an act of faith.

— Victor Hugo

“A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.”

— James Rozoff

“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently…

— Umberto Eco

“True,' I said, amazed. Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or devine, that lie outside books. Now I…

— Umberto Eco

“Libraries are a force for good. They wear capes. They fight evil. They don’t get upset when you don’t send them a card on…

— Libba Bray

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because…

— André Brink

“The library is a whispering post. You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice inside that…

— Susan Orlean

“There, I said to myself, are the reasons for the silence and darkness that surround the library: it is the preserve of learning but…

— Umberto Eco

“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are…

— Francis Bacon

“My brother, being an English gentleman, possesses a library in all his houses, though he never opens a book. This is called fidelity to…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“I love libraries. I love books. There is something sacred, I think, about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom,…

— Gordon B. Hinckley