Motivational Quotes

Books

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Books

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

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

Groucho Marx

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

William Goldman

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

Christopher Morley

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

Ralph Novak

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

Moses Hadas

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

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

Harold Bloom

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

Sir Richard Steele

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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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You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

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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 is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

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

Upton Sinclair

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

Evan Esar

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

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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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Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

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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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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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Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

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

John Witherspoon

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

Frank Zappa

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

Mark Twain

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

Lenore Hershey

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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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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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I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

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I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

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

Cicero

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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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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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This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

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

Bell Hooks

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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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Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

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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