Samuel Butler Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

  Samuel Butler

  Freedom, Book, Soul

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

• Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

  Samuel Butler

  Book, Writing, Want

• An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, God, Im Sorry

  Notebooks ch. 14 (1912)

• The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

  Samuel Butler

  Book

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

• My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

  Samuel Butler

  Book, People, Wish

  Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

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