Penguin Island - Book

Famous quotes containing the word book:

“The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one’s intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“Heav’n from all creatures, hides the book of Fate,
All but the page prescrib’d, their present state:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)