Motivational Quotes

Books

Oh for a book and a shady nook...

- John Wilson

Best Quotes about Books

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

Harold Bloom

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

Groucho Marx

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

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

Cicero

I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

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

Christopher Morley

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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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Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

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

Dame Rose Macaulay

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

John Witherspoon

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

Mark Twain

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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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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 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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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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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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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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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

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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

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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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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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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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This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

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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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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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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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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

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

Moses Hadas

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

Bell Hooks

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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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Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

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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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Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

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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

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Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

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

Ralph Novak