Motivational Quotes

Books

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Books

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything 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

This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

John Witherspoon

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.

Josh Lieb

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

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You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Henry James

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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Cicero

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Kathleen Norris

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I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

Lenore Hershey

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Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

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It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Dame Rose Macaulay

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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Bell Hooks

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This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Alfred Hitchcock

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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Upton Sinclair

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Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles W. Eliot

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Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Salman Rushdie

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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

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When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

Marie de Sevigne

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Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton

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Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

Randy Pausch

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.

Ralph Novak

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir Richard Steele

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I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

William Goldman

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

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I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare

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There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.

Anna Quindlen

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Christopher Morley

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

G. K. Chesterton

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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Moses Hadas

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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Charles De Secondat