Motivational Quotes

Books

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

- Harold Bloom

Best Quotes about Books

1.

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

Sir Richard Steele

2.

I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

3.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

4.

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

5.

Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

9.

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

Lenore Hershey

10.

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

William Goldman

11.

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

Groucho Marx

12.

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

13.

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

Kathleen Norris

14.

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

15.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

16.

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

17.

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

Harold Bloom

18.

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

Bell Hooks

19.

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

20.

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

Frank Zappa

21.

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

Ralph Novak

22.

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

Upton Sinclair

23.

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

24.

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

Mark Twain

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Dame Rose Macaulay

32.

Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

33.

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

Christopher Morley

34.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

35.

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

Marie de Sevigne

36.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

37.

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

Alfred Hitchcock

38.

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

Charles De Secondat

39.

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

John Witherspoon

40.

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

Evan Esar

41.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Robertson Davies

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Moses Hadas

48.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

49.

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

50.

I read part of it all the way through.