Charles Kingsley Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

  Charles Kingsley

  Reading, Book, Men

  Charles Kingsley (1849). “Twenty-five Village Sermons”, p.254

• We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

  Charles Kingsley

  Teacher, Book, Reading

• Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

  Charles Kingsley

  Motivational, Brother, Book

• In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was sitting on the edge of a low range of inland cliffs, crested with drifting sand.

  Charles Kingsley

  Christian, Book, Years

  Charles Kingsley (1856). “Hypatia ... The second edition”, p.1

• Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.

  Charles Kingsley

  Wall, Book, Communication

  Charles Kingsley (1860). “Two years ago ... Third edition”, p.18

• All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.

  Charles Kingsley

  Book, Autumn, Bridges

  Charles Kingsley (1871). “Westward Ho! Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Bourrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth”, p.1

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