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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
- Luther, Martin
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Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Maclennan, Hugh

2.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
Hazlitt, William

3.
Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
Hood, Thomas

5.
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Lawrence, D. H.

7.
Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

8.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Phillips, Wendell

9.
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Bloom, Allan

10.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise

11.
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.
Rushdie, Salman

12.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Pound, Ezra

13.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Rostand, Jean

14.
A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
Carey, Joyce

15.
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Hugo, Victor

17.
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire

18.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare.
Kenko, Yoshida

20.
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Mcluhan, Marshall

21.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Tupper, Martin

22.
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Forster, Edward M.

23.
Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.
Buckingham, Duke of

24.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Disraeli, Benjamin

25.
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
Berger, John

26.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Fusselman, W.

27.
A book that is shut is but a block.
Fuller, Thomas

28.
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
Mencken, H. L.

29.
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.
Kingsley, Charles

30.
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Critchfield, Jim

31.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
Kirk, E.N.

32.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Landor, Walter Savage

33.
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
Neruda, Pablo

34.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Aubrey, John

35.
The age of the book is almost gone.
Steiner, George

36.
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent

37.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
Milton, John

38.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
Twain, Mark

39.
Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Baudelaire, Charles

40.
Books succeed, and lives fail.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

41.
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.
More, Hannah

42.
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Trollope, Anthony

43.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Martineau, Harriet

44.
Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.
Blackie, Professor

45.
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.
Rhys, Jean

46.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
True, Herbert

47.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Woolf, Virginia

48.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Ruskin, John

49.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

50.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
Trevelyan, G. M.


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