“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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novelist, short story writer 1916–1965Related quotes

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
Canto V, line 33
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
Source: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“This book is begun by God’s gift and His grace, but it is not yet performed, as to my sight.”
The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 86

Source: The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. written by himself
“The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies”