Quotes by Augustine Birrell

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

#Friendship

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without...

#Books

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

#Books

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

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

#History

Libraries are not made, they grow

#Libraries

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

#Reading

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

#Good Friend