Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Books - reading

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Thurber, James

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Johnson, Samuel

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Gibbon, Edward

A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Rhys, Jean

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Morely, John

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Critchfield, Jim

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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Fielding, Henry

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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Belloc, Hilaire

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In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Lee, Spike

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I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.

Levine, Ghita

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Rostand, Jean

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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.

Miller, Henry

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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

Hood, Paxton

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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Auden, W. H.

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You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Trollope, Anthony

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Mccosh

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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Keith, Sir Arthur

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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Morely, John

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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Tupper, Martin

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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Hood, Thomas

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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Mansfield, Katherine

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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Ruskin, John

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb, American

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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Howells, William Dean

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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Kempis, Thomas

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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Mencken, H. L.