Book Considered Suitable

Famous quotes containing the words book, considered and/or suitable:

    Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title, James Spalding, or Charles Budgeon, and the passengers going the opposite way could read nothing at all—save “a man with a red moustache,” “a young man in grey smoking a pipe.”
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful.... I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
    Isidore Ducasse, Comte de LautrĂ©amont (1846–1870)

    Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)