4 Quotes by Holbrook Jackson about book

  • Author Holbrook Jackson
  • Quote

    Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Holbrook Jackson
  • Quote

    Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Holbrook Jackson
  • Quote

    A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Holbrook Jackson
  • Quote

    Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.

  • Tags
  • Share