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Read Homer
once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so
mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist
to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.
-- Duke of Buckingham
1628-1687, British Poet,
Satirist, Dramatist
In science
read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist,
Poet
Reading
without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist,
Poet
Americans will
listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must
wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really
comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it
maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted.
Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and
they want the person, not the book.
-- Anthony Burgess
1917-1993, British Writer,
Critic
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Books are
masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without
words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach
them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not
hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are
ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
-- Richard De Bury
1287-1345, British Chancellor
The oldest
books are still only just out to those who have not read
them.
-- Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet,
Satirist
The reading or
non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
'Tis pleasant,
sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although
there's nothing in it.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
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