Top Bookish Quotes

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.

Bookish Definition

(a.) Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.

(a.) Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.

Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pass...

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

Mom, I feel good. This dress makes me feel like someone I didn't know I could be. I've never owned anything like it. But if when you see this - when you see me- you think it's a pity, that it's a sham...

Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It is less...