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Old Books Quotes

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. Bernard Baruch
Ray Bradbury quote: "A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book..."
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. Ray Bradbury
Oliver Goldsmith quote: "I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old..."
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. Oliver Goldsmith
I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of my mind, every day a bit louder, I heard the seashell drone of some growing, coalescing force; I seemed to smell the bitter ozone aroma of lightings-to-come. Stephen King
Henry Ford quote: "There are three things that grow more precious with age; old..."
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. Henry Ford
I have always preferred the folly of the passions to the wisdom of indifference. But just because my own passions are not of that sort which burst out with violence to devastate and kill, the common mind is not aware of their existence. Nevertheless, I am greatly moved by them at times, and it has more than once been my fate to lose my sleep for the sake of a few pages written by some forgotten monk or printed by some humble apprentice of Peter Schffer. And if these fierce enthusiasms are... Anatole France
There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward. Peter Ackroyd
Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books. C. S. Lewis
Joseph Joubert quote: "The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us..."
The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading old books. Joseph Joubert
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how could they have thought that?" - lies where we have never suspected it... None of us can fully escape this blindness, but we shall certainly increase it, and weaken our guard against it, if we read only modern books. Where they are true they will give us truths which we half knew already. Where they are false they will aggravate the error with which we are already... C. S. Lewis
I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains. Jack Bowman
J. K. Rowling quote: "...she was dashing back, an enormous old book in her arms."
...she was dashing back, an enormous old book in her arms. J. K. Rowling
Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book. Jodi Picoult
...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. Arthur Conan Doyle
Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'. Thomas Hardy

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