Book Collecting Quotes
Collection of top 32 famous quotes about Book Collecting
Book Collecting Quotes & Sayings
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My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.
— Gianni Versace
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
— Lillian Smith
Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.
— Rebecca West
We don't have meetings unless absolutely necessary.
— Caterina Fake
After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.
— A. S. W. Rosenbach
My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In The Library.'
— Sophie Hannah
I hold that book-collecting is the best of indoor sports, and I think I can provide proof; at any rate, I shall try.
— A. Edward Newton
As book collectors know all too well: We only regret our economies, never our extravagances.
— Michael Dirda
Drinking is a remarkable, automatic release and a way of relaxing.
— Michelle Huneven
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
— Alfred Russel Wallace
To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.
— Carlos Maria Dominguez
Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.
— A.N.L. Munby
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
— Walter Benjamin
I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.
— Chadwick Boseman
Don't you think that although you have the sorrows of humanity at heart, sometimes you are a little impatient with the sorrows of particular men?
— Florence Converse
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
— Augustine Birrell
He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.
— J.K. Rowling
To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.
— Leona Rostenberg
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
- Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library — Phillip Lopate
- Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library — Phillip Lopate
Some relationships and love for people just keeps going on forever,
— Meghant Parmar
The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.
— Maralee McKee
In nature, the bird who gets up earliest catches the most worms, but in book collecting the prizes fall to birds who know worms when they see them.
— Michael Sadleir
Almost everyone is overconfident
except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists. — Joseph T. Hallinan
except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists. — Joseph T. Hallinan
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
— Wayne W. Dyer
Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book.
— John Baxter
The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
— Rohinton Mistry