31 Quotes About Love-of-books

No more shall you go bookless, Mrs. Crumb. From this day henceforth you have free run of my library with my compliments."She stared. "I-"He grinned, looking not a little wicked. "Have you looked at my books? Glanced at my titles? Fondled my spines?

My darling, why didn't you say so before? You know, I sometimes wonder," she added, turning to Ann, "what it would be like to have no children.""Jolly dull, " said John. "you'd be bored stiff. What would you do all day?""Well I could read a little," said Mrs Gayford, rather vaguely, "really good books, you know, and the Times Literary Supplement. I used to be very fond of it.

It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.

Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.