Book-collectors Quote by Vincent Starrett Download Open image ““It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books…”” — Vincent Starrett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book-collectors Books Man U Nature
“I’d rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind.” — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
“I believe that books, like people, come to us at the perfect time, with a purpose to either bring awareness to something we need… — Lindsay Carricarte-Jones Copy Share Image
“Books are like women, all more or less have the same form, buts its the intricacies of whats inside that makes them special!” — Dave Alexander Ramos me Copy Share Image
“He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of books.” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“The books I like the best are those That give us more than what they say -- They simply open countless doors Through which… — Rebecca McCann Copy Share Image
“Books—all books—are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them… — Andrew Rilstone Copy Share Image
“I realized right away that books could take us out of ourselves, and make us larger. Even provide us with human connections we wouldn’t… — Masha Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Books are the most precious things we have in this world. Anything you might want to know, you can find in a book.” — D.M. Pulley Copy Share Image
“Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Here dwell together still two men of note Who never lived and so can never die: How very near they seem, yet how remote… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
“Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
The day before yesterday has always been a day of glamor, of gilt and glory. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
“For one thing, a first edition certainly is the edition nearest the heart of an author, the edition upon which his hopes were laid… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane As night descends upon the fabled street: A lonely hansom splashes through the rain, And ghostly gas… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
“Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image