The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee.
Books Quotes
Samuel Johnson is on this page more than once for good reason. In The Rambler (1750) he wrote that no place gives a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Boswell (1791) has him saying that a man ought to read just as inclination leads him, because what he reads as a task will do him little good. Alberto Manguel, Emerson and Northrop Frye are among the most-quoted writers here, which is what you would expect from people who spent their working lives reading.
Two entries are flagged as misattributed. The quip about a manuscript that is both good and original, with the good parts not original and the original parts not good, is credited to Johnson. “Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!” is credited to General Patton.
Man has sufficient cause for tears without adding to them by books.
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
The Bible is most dangerous book ever written on earth, keep it under lock and key.
You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.
My girlfriend always laughs during sex — no matter what she's reading.