Quotes & Sayings About Smelling Books

Books for the general reader are always ill-smelling books, the odour of paltry people clings to them. Where the populace eat and drink, and even where they reverence, it is accustomed to stink. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking a book of a shelf calmed her. Opening the cover, feeling the paper's smoothness, smelling the sheets, the leather, even sometimes the ink, centered her. — M.J. Rose

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books. — Ray Bradbury

It's the only thing I begrudge the rich," I said, as I followed him back down the damp-smelling staircase to the ground floor.
"What's that?"
"Their ability to buy books that the rest of us can never hope to own. — Susanna Kearsley

Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A half million books, all of them smelling like dust and ink, two terrible smells that blend mystically to make something beautiful. — Donald Miller