Frases de Augustine Birrell

Augustine Birrell foi um escritor e político inglês.

✵ 19. Janeiro 1850 – 20. Novembro 1933
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Augustine Birrell frases e citações

“Aquela montanha de pó a que chamamos 'história”

Augustine Birrell

Fonte: "Obiter Dicta, Carlyle"

Augustine Birrell: Frases em inglês

“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”

Augustine Birrell

Variante: Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

“Words are women, deeds are men.”

Augustine Birrell

"In the Name of the Bodleian"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays

“It can never be wrong to give pleasure.”

Augustine Birrell

"Gossip in a Library"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays

“It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.”

Augustine Birrell

"In the Name of the Bodleian"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays

“A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.”

Augustine Birrell

"In the Name of the Bodleian"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays

“Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.”

Augustine Birrell

"Bookworms"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays

“There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven;”

Augustine Birrell

"Gossip in a Library"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays

“Great is bookishness and the charm of books.”

Augustine Birrell

"Bookworms"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays

“There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector”

Augustine Birrell

"Gossip in a Library"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays