“- Daniel: One of the rooms they called it the library and they filled it full of books. Thousands of books on every subject and they're all second-hand. You know why?
- Martha: It was cheaper?
- Daniel: No. It's so it looks like they've been read.”
Tom Hollander - Daniel
Monica Potter - Martha

“- Bastian: Do you carry how-to books?
- Koreander: How-to books? Does this place look like a supermarket? If you want advice on how to buy real estate or housebreak your goldfish, go to the video store down the street.”
Jonathan Brandis - Bastian Balthazar Bux
Thomas Hill - Koreander

“- Prince Henry: Mother, Father, I want to build a university, with the largest library on the continent, where anyone can study, no matter their station!
- King Francis: All right... who are you... and what have you done with my son?
- Prince Henry: [laughs] Oh, and I want to invite the gypsies to the ball!”
Dougray Scott - Prince Henry
Timothy West - King Francis

“The public library is the last bastion of democracy that we have in this country!”
Jeffrey Wright - Anderson

“- David: What were you doing in a library?
- Jennifer: I got lost.”
Tobey Maguire - David
Reese Witherspoon - Jennifer