Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

I buy way too many books.

People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with a houseful of crumbling newspapers.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.

I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.

I buy thousands of books a year.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

Books are my weakness.

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.

I always look for a bookshop wherever I go.

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.

I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too.

I am not man or beast; I am bibliosexual, and a seedy bibliosexual who haunts the streets, laden with carrier bags held by blistered fingers, stooping under the weight of the rucksack that has brought on sciatica and a Dickensian demeanour.

He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table. Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.

Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.

Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it needn't be more pleasant, exciting or illuminating -- merely other) and I still fall into books as though into catalepsy.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.