Motivational Quotes

Books

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

- Robertson Davies

Best Quotes about Books

1.

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

Harold Bloom

2.

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

Sir Francis Bacon

3.

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

4.

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

5.

I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

6.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

7.

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

8.

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

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Mark Twain

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Lenore Hershey

14.

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

Moses Hadas

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Cicero

18.

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

19.

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

Ralph Novak

20.

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

21.

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

Charles De Secondat

22.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

23.

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

28.

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

Kathleen Norris

29.

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

Bell Hooks

30.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

31.

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

32.

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

Marie de Sevigne

33.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

34.

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

35.

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

36.

This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

37.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

38.

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