Book Quotes

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums. ~ Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope "There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel." ~ Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope "Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything." ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen "Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can." ~ Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all. ~ Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen It is not true that religion reached its acme nineteen hundred years ago, and that we are for ever to refer back to what was written and said in those days. No, sir; religion is a vital living thing, still growing and working, capable of endless extension and development, like all other fields of thought. There were many eternal truths spoken of old and handed down to us in a book, some parts of which may indeed be called holy. But there are others yet to be revealed; and if we are to reject them because they are not in those pages, we should act as wisely as the scientist who would take no notice of Kirschoff's spectral analysis because there is no mention of it in Albertus Magnus. ~ The Stark Munro Letters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved." ~ The Prince and The Pauper by Mark Twain