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Quotations by Subject
- I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
- Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968), on his novel, "The Jungle" (1906)
- The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride
- Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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