Famous quotes containing the words favourite, comic and/or book:
“Ye Cupids, droop each little head,
Nor let your wings with joy be spread:
My Lesbias favourite bird is dead,
Whom dearer than her eyes she loved.”
—Catullus [Gaius Valerius Catullus] (8454 B.C.)
“A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.”
—Paul Fussell (b. 1924)
“The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
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