"To stand in a great bookshop crammed..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“loveliness is infernally sad.”

“Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession.”

“I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.”

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”

“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”

“People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.”

“The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library”

“It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.”

“Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.”