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However, the majority of women are neither harlots nor courtesans; nor do they sit clasping pug dogs to dusty velvet all through the summer afternoon....more

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My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which...more

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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

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Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.

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What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not res...more

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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters, defilers, the wr...more

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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

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She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...

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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. Wh...more

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What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

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She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her t...more

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The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glo...more

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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.

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Here she tossed her foot impatiently, and showed an inch or two of calf. A sailor on the mast, who happened to look down at the moment, started so vio...more