Motivational Quotes

Books

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

- Dame Rose Macaulay

Best Quotes about Books

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann

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

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Lenore Hershey

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

Bell Hooks

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

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

Frank Zappa

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

G. K. Chesterton

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

11.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

12.

I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

13.

Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

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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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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

Evan Esar

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I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

17.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

18.

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

19.

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

Moses Hadas

20.

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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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

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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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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

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

Groucho Marx

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

Harold Bloom

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

Cicero

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

Dame Rose Macaulay

29.

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

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

John Witherspoon

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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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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

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

Charles De Secondat

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

Marie de Sevigne

35.

This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

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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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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Sir Francis Bacon

40.

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

Robertson Davies

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

Upton Sinclair

43.

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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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

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Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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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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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