Augustine Birrell
Augustine Birrell (19 January 1850 – 20 November 1933) was an English essayist, biographer and politician.
Quotes
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays
- A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.
- "In the Name of the Bodleian"
- It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
- "In the Name of the Bodleian"
- Words are women, deeds are men.
- "In the Name of the Bodleian"
- Great is bookishness and the charm of books.
- "Bookworms"
- Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.
- "Bookworms"
- Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! […] By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.
- "Bookworms"
- There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven;
- "Gossip in a Library"
- There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
- "Gossip in a Library"
- It can never be wrong to give pleasure.
- "Gossip in a Library"
