Libris Quotes

#1. An ex-libris is to the book what a collar is to the dog

Edward Gordon Craig

#2. Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#3. I'm the most underdog underdog there is.

Barry Goldwater

#4. He can think now only of objects. Something alive, just one small grey bird on a branch, will break his heart.

Michael Ondaatje

#5. Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

Leslie Fiedler

#6. The reverse gear of time is the mind!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet's eyes.

Vera Brittain

#8. Art should be linked to abstract things - color, line, tone. It is not an instrument to improve social conditions and chase ugliness. Painting is like music and it has to separate from everyday reality.

Irving Stone

#9. Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

Conor Oberst

#10. Everyone to their own. But a nice, warm, friendly spanking never did anyone any harm.

Chloe Thurlow