Quotes About Books
Quotes About Books
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen
― Jane Austen
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― G.K. Chesterton
― G.K. Chesterton
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
― Jorge Luis Borges
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx
― Groucho Marx
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde
― Oscar Wilde
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde
― Oscar Wilde
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle
― Madeleine L'Engle
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis
― C.S. Lewis
“Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway
― Ernest Hemingway
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles William Eliot
― Charles William Eliot
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde
― Oscar Wilde
“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert
― Gustave Flaubert
“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis
― C.S. Lewis
“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecher
― Henry Ward Beecher
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
― Toni Morrison
“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson
― Thomas Jefferson
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell
― Bertrand Russell