Bad Book

Famous quotes containing the words bad and/or book:

    Surely Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example
    With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal—
    Stephen Spender (1909–1995)

    It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling-block.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)