Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Reading, Glasses

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton: A List of All the Ms. Emendations in Mr. Collier's Folio, 1632”, p.13

• What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Beer, Soul

  'Epigram' (1802)

• Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Success, Country

• Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Heart, Illustration

  Hartley Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1852). “Lives of northern worthies”, p.133

• It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Saying Less, Years

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.230

• There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Men, May

• I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Law, Authority

• The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Jobs, Book, Antiques

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.69

• Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Country, Book, Mean

  "Lives of Northern Worthies".

• I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Depth, Inspired

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