classic literature quotes

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ and I don’t know if you remember ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ but it’s dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.

All right, then, I’ll go to hell.

‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‚Democracy in America‘ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.