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The Amenities of Book Collecting And Kindred Affections QUOTES

The Amenities of Book Collecting And Kindred Affections QUOTES

1 " Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity... We cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access reassurance. "

― A. Edward Newton , The Amenities of Book Collecting And Kindred Affections

2 " My depth of purse is not so great
Nor yet my bibliophilic greed,
That merely buying doth elate:
The books I buy I like to read:
Still e'en when dawdling in a mead,
Beneath a cloudless summer sky,
By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed,
The books I read — I like to buy. "

― A. Edward Newton , The Amenities of Book Collecting And Kindred Affections

3 " Shortly afterward, a check for a substantial sum fluttered down upon my desk, and it was impossible that I should not remember how much Milton had received for his 'Paradise Lost' — the receipt for which is in the British Museum — and draw conclusions therefrom entirely satisfactory to my self-esteem. "

― A. Edward Newton , The Amenities of Book Collecting And Kindred Affections

4 " My advice to any one who may be temped by some volume with an inscription of the author on its fly-leaf or title-page is, 'Yield with coy submission' — and at once. While such books make frightful inroads on one's bank account, I have regretted only my economies, never my extravagances. "

― A. Edward Newton , The Amenities of Book Collecting And Kindred Affections

5 " By this time it will have been discovered that I am not much of a traveler; but I have always loved London — London with its wealth of literary and historic association, with its countless miles of streets lined with inessential shops overflowing with things that I don't want, and its grimy old book-shops overflowing with things that I do. "

― A. Edward Newton , The Amenities of Book Collecting And Kindred Affections

6 " Buying from Quaritch is rather too much like the German idea of hunting: namely, sitting in an easy chair near a breach in the wall through which game, big or little, is shooed within easy reach of your gun. "

― A. Edward Newton , The Amenities of Book Collecting And Kindred Affections

7 " Some one once wrote a poem about 'old books and fresh flowers.' It lilted along very nicely; but I remark that books stay old, indeed get older, and flowers do not stay fresh: a little too much rain, a little too much sun, and it is all over. "

― A. Edward Newton , The Amenities of Book Collecting And Kindred Affections