Book Quote by William Cowper

Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States--first,murder…

— H. L. Mencken

By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided.…

— Samuel Johnson

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.

— Gilles Menage

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

— John Green

As far as 'Birdsong' is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of the matter…

— Sebastian Faulks

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how…

— Denis Johnston

Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.

— David Mamet

All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made…

— William Butler Yeats

memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast…

— Gail Caldwell

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories…

— Steven Johnson

The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson