Brooke > Brooke's Quotes

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
― John Philpot Curran

“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
― Arnold Lobel

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

“I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.”
― Alan Rickman