“A man's library is a sort of harem.”

“But we're a university! Weto have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds. What sort of people would we be if we didn't go into the library?"

"Students," said Senior Wrangler morosely.”

“It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.”

“Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough.”

“A man will turn over half a library to make one book.”

“The social value of freeing women from a harem-enclosed existence to a life of activity can be questioned only by those advocates of a "man's world" who wish to perpetuate its butchers and savage jungle law.”

“It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed', although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had been badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well.”

“A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.”

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”

“He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.”