Book Quote by Voltaire

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

— Voltaire

“That’s the origin of the number, and how it became a theme for this book.”

— A.R. Wise

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return…

— Jonathan Swift

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

— Anonymous

“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women”

— Virginia Woolf

“Lovers of small numbers go benignly potty, Believe all tales are thirteen chapters long, Have animal doubles, carry pentagrams, Are Millerites, Baconians, Flat-Earth-Men. Lovers…

— W.H. Auden

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

— Andre Maurois

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

— Juvenal

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of…

— Charles Bukowski

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

— Paul Scofield

The fate of all extremes is such: men may be read, as well as books, too much.

— Alexander Pope Q