More Quotations About Books

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ~ Stephen Leacock, Homer and Humbug

Books are not made like children but like pyramids ... and they are just as useless! and they stay in the desert! ... Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them. ~ Gustave Flaubert

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time. ~ John Ruskin

A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book -- it is a plaything. ~ Thomas Love Peacock

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. - Robert Louis Stevenson (Robert Louis Stevenson on the Web)