Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Book Quotes , Beer Quotes

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Inspire Quotes

Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. Come, mourn with me for what I do lament, And put sullen black incontinent. I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land To wash this blood off from my guilty hand. March sadly after. Grace my mournings here In weeping after this untimely bier.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Book Quotes , Blood Quotes

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Verghese Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Book Quotes , Evening Light Quotes

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Quotes , Book Quotes , Essence Quotes

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Book Quotes , Good Company Quotes

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Book Quotes , Mean Quotes

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Book Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: ----Introibo ad altare Dei.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Morning Quotes , Book Quotes

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state of the religious mind can be understood only when we begin to understand what beauty is; and the understanding of beauty must be approached through total aloneness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Religious Quotes , Book Quotes

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Book Quotes , Political Quotes

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Book Quotes , Play Quotes