Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• We may live without friends; we may live without books
  But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Food, Book, Men

  'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

• We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Art, Book, Passion

  'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

• Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Inspirational, Book, Masters

• It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Book, School, Museums

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