Quote Tag

I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

April is the cruellest month.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.