Top 43 Bibliophile Quotes
#1. I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
Norman MacCaig
#2. Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars
Holless Wilbur Allen
#3. A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
William Lyon Phelps
#4. Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.
Martin Edwards
#5. A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
Karl Kraus
#6. But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself included. it kept me from being an industrialist. it allowed me to endure some women that most men would never be able to live with. it gave me space, a pause. it helped me to write this.
Charles Bukowski
#8. For all her faults, it was actually my mom who instilled in me a love of reading, and books, for which I will always be grateful. She's a complete bibliophile, so I've pretty much grown up around libraries and books.
Paula Gruben
#9. A serious bibliophile never lends his books. In fact he does not even read his books, for fear of wearing them out.
Gerard De Nerval
#10. To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.
Will Thomas
#11. She was a bibliophile - she would be perfectly happy never talking to another human being again as long as she had books to read.
Brenda L. Harper
#12. Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.
Will Thomas
#13. Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile."
"A what?" asked Eragon.
"One who loves books," explained Jeod.
Christopher Paolini
#14. The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.
Henry Ward Beecher
#16. That must be something to discover a book that nobody's ever heard of or everybody thought was lost."
"It's every bibliophile's dream," said Francis, and Peter knew in a second that it was his own.
Charlie Lovett
#18. For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care
of, so that it may survive for a longer period.
Anurag Shourie
#19. The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
Gustave Flaubert
#20. She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.
Shannon Hale
#21. Books are carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows of the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#22. We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.
Kevin Smokler
#23. As I look around the quiet room, I see a thousand leather covers like doorways into worlds unknown.
Laura Whitcomb
#24. Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
Voltaire
#25. I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.
Frazier Glenn Miller
#26. There is nothing like the smell of books, both new and old. If someone ever bottled the smell, I would be all over it .
Tiffany King
#27. Mom, I feel good. This dress makes me feel like someone I didn't know I could be. I've never owned anything like it. But if when you see this - when you see me- you think it's a pity, that it's a shame I didn't lose a few, then screw you, Mom. Try harder.
Julie Murphy
#28. Suddenly, Walter was aware of all the things he did not know. There were hundreds--thousands--of books in the world, and he had read only a handful of them. One day he would die, a myriad of books unread, his knowledge of the world incomplete.
Barbara Wersba
#29. George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.
Anne Fadiman
#30. To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.
David S.E. Zapanta
#31. I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.
Sherman Alexie
#32. sometimes stories and books are all that we need to take us away
Susan Ornbratt
#33. I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.
Gabrielle Zevin
#34. If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.
Anne Fadiman
#35. What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?
Laini Taylor
#38. A library should fill our leisure with adventure. It is a refuge from the commonplace and the dull, a sanctuary where all the trials, the tribulations, and the boredoms of the outer world are forbidden and where such an evil thing as a tax-collector may be forgotten and, peradventure, forgiven.
E. Norman Torry
#39. Life is paradoxical, but I believe that I could also be the same person I am today, if life would have cut me with happiness instead of pain.
Haidji
#40. A sea of dreams trapped in a span of pressed pages
Laura Whitcomb
#41. The chambermaid believed in courtly love. A book's physical self was sacrosanct to her, its form inseparable from its content; her duty as a lover was Platonic adoration, a noble but doomed attempt to conserve forever the state of perfect chastity in which it had left the bookseller.
Anne Fadiman
#42. He pinched the remaining chapters' pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.
David S.E. Zapanta
#43. Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation - a gnawing familiarity - that comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story.
Kate Bernheimer
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