“Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.”

“Think of me, the uneducated child reading books in my room at 22 Hyde Park Gate -- now advanced to this glory... Yes; all that reading, I say, has borne this odd fruit. And I am pleased.”

“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.”

“Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.”

“No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes.”

“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”

“But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.”