Motivational Quotes

Books

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with'em, then we grow out of'em and leave'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

Best Quotes about Books

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

Alfred Hitchcock

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with'em, then we grow out of'em and leave'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Evan Esar

Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

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

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne

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

This book fills a much-needed gap.

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

11.

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

Moses Hadas

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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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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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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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Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

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

Dame Rose Macaulay

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I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Sir Francis Bacon

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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

Paxton Hood

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

Sir Richard Steele

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

Lenore Hershey

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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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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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

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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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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

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

Marie de Sevigne

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

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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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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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I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

40.

Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

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

Upton Sinclair

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

Mark Twain

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

Harold Bloom

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

Ralph Novak