Citações sobre Livros

Hoje deixo aqui mais umas citações curiosas sobre livros que descobri quando andava a juntar citações para este post. Gosto especialmente da 1ª, 6ª e 9ª.

1. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde
2. Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. - Thomas Jefferson
3. You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C. S. Lewis
4. Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. - Helen Keller
5. Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. - Bell Hooks
6. There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. - Christopher Morley
7. A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Cicero
8. Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them. - Evan Esar
9. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. - Henry David Thoreau

Crédito aos sites Brainy Quote, Cool Quotes e The Quotations Page pelas citações.

Citações - Dia Mundial do Livro

Para celebrar o Dia Mundial do Livro pensei em juntar algumas citações conhecidas e deixar aqui alguns links sobre a origem deste dia - aqui e aqui; se preferirem ler em inglês o link é este. O Dia Mundial do Livro é, na sua designação mais completa, o Dia Mundial do Livro e do Direito de Autor, tendo sido instituido em 1995 pela UNESCO. Este dia foi escolhido por ter sido o dia da morte de Miguel de Cervantes e o dia de nascimento e da morte de William Shakespeare (se bem que é difícil ter a certeza das datas de nascimento/morte deste escritor).

Aqui ficam as citações:

• 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read. - Mark Twain
• I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. - Groucho Marx
• This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. - Alfred Hitchcock
• Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. - Charles Caleb Colton
• Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot
• This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. - Dorothy Parker
• If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. - William Hazlitt
• A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. - Chinese Proverb
• Books to the ceiling,
  Books to the sky,
  My pile of books is a mile high.
  How I love them! How I need them!
  I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. - Arnold Lobel

Algumas citações achei engraçadas e algumas reflectem a minha visão como leitora. A última parece-me especialmente engraçada já que se aproxima de descrever a minha pilha de livros por ler.

Crédito aos sites Brainy Quote, Cool Quotes e The Quotations Page pelas citações, e à página do Wikimedia Commons e à página da Wikipedia sobre o Dia Mundial do Livro pela imagem.

Citações

Boas, dado que tenho andado um pouco assoberbada com trabalho da faculdade, venho deixar aqui um post rápido, com um par de citações do livro que ando a ler...

"Coisa sinistra, esperar contra toda a esperança." pág. 18

"Não são como nós, que não podemos esquecer." pág. 35

De: A Promessa de Kushiel, Jacqueline Carey, Saída de Emergência

Junto um par de citações de um livro favorito, no qual tenho andado a pensar. Talvez o leia em breve. Junto também algumas capas que me chamaram a atenção numa pesquisa no Google.

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.

Captain Wentworth to Anne Elliot

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"Oh!" cried Anne eagerly, "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you, and by those who resemble you. God forbid that I should undervalue the warm and faithful feelings of any of my fellow-creatures! I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachment and constancy were known only by woman. No, I believe you capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as--if I may be allowed the expression--so long as you have an object. I mean while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."

Via Goodreads: Persuasão, Jane Austen