Books Quotes

• "A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,--whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,--breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever."
  By: Robert Aris Willmott
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• "In comparing men and books, one must always remember this important distinction,--that one can put the books down at anytime. As Macaulay says, "Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.""
  By: Nathaniel Parker Willis
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• "They are for company the best friends, in Doubt's Counsellors, in Damps Comforters, Time's Perspective the Home Traveller's Ship or Horse, the busie Man's best Recreation, the Opiate of idle Weariness, the Mindes best Ordinary, Nature's Garden and Seed-plot of Immortality."
  By: Bulstrode Whitelocke, Zootamia
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• "Books,--lighthouses erected in the great sea of time."
  By: Edwin Percy Whipple
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• "Beware you be not swallowed up in books."
  By: John Wesley
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• "Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged."
  By: Horace (Horatio) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
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• "It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part; the rest are confounded with the multitude."
  By: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
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• "A small number of choice books are sufficient."
  By: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
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• "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
  By: Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
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• "We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge."
  By: Alan Turing, in A.P. Hodges' "Alan Turing: the Enigma"
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• "A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever."
  By: Martin Farquhar Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy Series I--Of Reading
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• "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
  By: Barbara W. Tuchman
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• "The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt."
  By: attributed to Calvin Trillin, in the "Sunday Times", June 9, 1991
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• "Thee will I sing in comely wainscot bound And golden verge enclosing thee around; The faithful horn before, from age to age Preserving thy invulnerable page. Behind thy patron saint in armor shines With sword and lance to guard the sacred lines; Th' instructive handle's at the bottom fixed Lest wrangling critics should pervert the text."
  By: Thomas Tickell, The Hornbook
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• "The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones."
  By: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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• "It is not all books that are as dull as their readers."
  By: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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