Holbrook Jackson Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Reading, Writing

• Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

• The end of reading is not more books but more life.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Reading, Book, Literacy

• Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Jealous, Soul

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

• A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Home, Air

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.20, University of Illinois Press

• Great books conserve time.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Writing, Great Book

• Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Children, Hate, Book

• Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Reading, Exercise

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.315, University of Illinois Press

• A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Reading, Drunk

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

• History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Obscenity, Prove

  Holbrook Jackson (1932). “The Fear of Books”, p.34, University of Illinois Press

• The better the book the more room for the reader.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Rooms, Reader

• Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Joy, Forever

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.646, University of Illinois Press

• The newest books are those that never grow old.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Reading, Grows

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