A Quote by Sydney Smith

No furniture is so charming as books.

Sydney Smith

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Books Charming Furniture

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Sydney Smith
English - Priest
June 3, 1771 - February 22, 1845

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

Jonathan Carroll

It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks.

Terry Pratchett

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later.

George Orwell

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

Horace Mann

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

David Brooks

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

Elizabeth Edwards

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

Aerin Lauder

I went to meet Joe Johnston, the director, and he's charming. I've been very lucky. Most of the directors I've worked with are charming. But Joe's a particularly charming man, and he showed me lots of designs and, rather memorably, welcomed me to the Marvel Universe.

Toby Jones

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Henry Ward Beecher

To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

Claire Messud

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

Henry David Thoreau

I have a vintage bohemian style of decor with a lot of candles, and second hand furniture and my crystals and my books and plants.

Jessica Origliasso

Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture." "Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ?

Jennifer Crusie

I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.