Augustine Birrell Quotes

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I don't know why - I have a ton of books: five full cabinets of them.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

Books do furnish a room.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

I grew up in a house with very few books.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Man is what he reads.

Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

I wish I had more time to read. I do love books.

On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books I believe I need to read.