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Augustine Birrell
10 quotes
“That great dust-heap called ‘history’.”
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Carlyle", in Obiter Dicta (1884)
“A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.”
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.”
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do not get many glimpses of Bodley's habits of life or ways of thinking, but there is no difficulty in discerning a strenuous, determined, masterful figure, bent during his later years, perhaps tyrannously bent, on effecting his object. He was not, we learn from a correspondent, 'hasty to write but when the posts do urge him, saying there need be no answer to your letters till more leisure breed him opportunity.' 'Words are women, deeds are men,' is another saying of his which I reprint without comment.”
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Great is bookishness and the charm of books.”
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.”
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! […] By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.”
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven.”
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector.”
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It can never be wrong to give pleasure.”
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source