Edith Wharton Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

  Edith Wharton

  Book, Mind, Want

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.12, Xist Publishing

• ... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

  Edith Wharton

  Book, House, Library

  Edith Wharton (2013). “A Backward Glance”, p.216, Lulu Press, Inc

• The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

  Edith Wharton

  Book, Men, Impact

  Edith Wharton (2012). “Summer”, p.4, Courier Corporation

• The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

  Edith Wharton

  Reading, Book, Pages

• I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

  Edith Wharton

  Mother, Children, Book

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.42, Edith Wharton

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