Quotes about Augustine Birrell

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

#Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least...

#Augustine Birrell

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we...

#Augustine Birrell

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

#Augustine Birrell

Libraries are not made, they grow.

#Augustine Birrell