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Helene Hanff Quotes
![Nobody over here [in England] says ‘six-thirty’ or ‘seven-thirty’, they say ‘hoppussix’ and ‘hoppusseven’. And ‘in’ at home is ‘trendy’ here and ‘give it up’ is ‘pack it in’ and ‘never mind!’ is ‘not to worry!’ ... and as Shaw once observed, we are two countries divided by a common language. I am now going to bed because it’s quataposstwelve Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/894/893231/893231.webp "Nobody over here [in England] says ‘six-thirty’ or ‘seven-thirty’, they say ‘hoppussix’ and ‘hoppusseven’. And ‘in’ at home is ‘trendy’ here and ‘give it up’ is ‘pack it in’ and ‘never mind!’ is ‘not to worry!’ ... and as Shaw once observed, we are two countries divided by a common language. I am now going to bed because it’s quataposstwelve Picture Quote #1")
![All my life I’ve wanted to see London. [...] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/867/866834/866834.webp "All my life I’ve wanted to see London. [...] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die Picture Quote #1")
![I’ll have mine [The Book-Lovers’ Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I’m leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/759/758828/758828.webp "I’ll have mine [The Book-Lovers’ Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I’m leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn Picture Quote #1")
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Nobody over here [in England] says ‘six-thirty’ or ‘seven-thirty’, they say ‘hoppussix’ and ‘hoppusseven’. And ‘in’ at home is ‘trendy’ here and ‘give it up’ is ‘pack it in’ and ‘never mind!’ is ‘not to worry!’ ... and as Shaw once observed, we are two countries divided by a common language. I am now going to bed because it’s quataposstwelve. (Helene Hanff Quotes)
All my life I’ve wanted to see London. [...] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die. (Helene Hanff Quotes)
If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much (Helene Hanff Quotes)
I’ll have mine [The Book-Lovers’ Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I’m leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn (Helene Hanff Quotes)
Hollywood isn’t a place, it’s a way of life (Helene Hanff Quotes)
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest (Helene Hanff Quotes)
I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution (Helene Hanff Quotes)
Why is it that people who wouldn’t dream of stealing anything else think it’s perfectly all right to steal books? (Helene Hanff Quotes)
It’s against my principles to buy a book I haven’t read, it’s like buying a dress you haven’t tried on (Helene Hanff Quotes)
I despair of ever getting it through anybody’s head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what’s written in the books. I don’t browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it (Helene Hanff Quotes)
My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I’m reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of page 20, say, I realize I can recite pages 21 and 22 from memory. Then I put the book away for a few years (Helene Hanff Quotes)
Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all (Helene Hanff Quotes)
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace (Helene Hanff Quotes)
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age? (Helene Hanff Quotes)
And for at least that moment, I wouldn’t have traded the hundreds of books I’ve read for the few I know almost by heart (Helene Hanff Quotes)
It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I’ve never read before (Helene Hanff Quotes)
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to (Helene Hanff Quotes)
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I’ve never been able to make that claim and I use a fork (Helene Hanff Quotes)
I personally can’t think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book (Helene Hanff Quotes)