Motivational Quotes

Books

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

- Marie de Sevigne

Best Quotes about Books

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

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

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

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

Cicero

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

Upton Sinclair

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

Mark Twain

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

Groucho Marx

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

Groucho Marx

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

Harold Bloom

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

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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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This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

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

Sir Richard Steele

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

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

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Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

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You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

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I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

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

Dame Rose Macaulay

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

Charles De Secondat

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

Ralph Novak

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

William Goldman

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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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Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

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

Evan Esar

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

Christopher Morley

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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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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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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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Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

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

Bell Hooks

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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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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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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