Imperial Library may refer to:
- Imperial Library of Constantinople
- Various libraries maintained by imperial households of China
- Wenjin Chamber
- Wenyuan Chamber
- Former name of the National Library of India
- Imperial Library (Japan), predecessor institution of the National Diet Library
- Library of Trantor, a fictional galactic repository in the works of Isaac Asimov
Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or library:
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.
“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)