Books Quotes

• "There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul."
  By: Emily Dickinson, A Book
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• "He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!"
  By: Emily Dickinson, A Book
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• "Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use."
  By: Sir John Denham, Of Prudence
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• "Give me a book that does my soul embrace And makes simplicity a grace-- Language freely flowing, thoughts as free-- Such pleasing books more taketh me Than all the modern works of art That please mine eyes and not my heart."
  By: Margaret Denbo (Anna Margaret Denbo), suggested by Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman"
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• "Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if investigating you interrogate them, they conceal nothing; if you mistake them, they never grumble; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you."
  By: Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham (f/k/a Richard Aungervyle)
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• "To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser."
  By: Robertson Davies
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• "The monument of vanished mindes."
  By: Sir William D'Avenant, Gondibert (bk. II, canto V)
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• "Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom."
  By: George William Curtis
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• "Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food."
  By: George Crabbe, The Borough (letter XXIV, Schools, l. 402)
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• "Books are not seldom talismans and spells."
  By: William Cowper
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• "Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night."
  By: Abraham Cowley, Of Myself
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• "Come, my best friends, my books! and lead me on."
  By: Abraham Cowley
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• "We should have a glorious conflagration if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a simple reason,--they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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