Holbrook Jackson
Holbrook Jackson
George Holbrook Jacksonwas a British journalist, writer and publisher. He was recognised as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Holbrook Jackson quotes about
happy form
Happiness is a form of courage.
book jealous soul
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.
habit undoing
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
night-time appointments
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.
mind censorship-in-books generations
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
book joy forever
Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
fire intuition genius
Genius is intuition on fire.
variation originality
Originality is only variation.
mistake ignorance men
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?
book home air
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."
friendship god dog
Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.
giving rich poor
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
two class society
There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.
ideas accepted rejects
As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.