Giovanni Maria Bononcini - Reading

Famous quotes containing the word reading:

“The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“For aesthetics is the mother of ethics.... Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe—not empirically, alas, but only theoretically—that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)