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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
- Eliot, George
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Best Quotes about Books - reading

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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

2.
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Secondat, Charles de

3.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Landor, Walter Savage

4.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Rohn, Jim

5.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Rostand, Jean

6.
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
Byron, Lord

8.
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.
Choate, Rufus

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Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!
Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Penn, William

11.
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

12.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Pound, Ezra

14.
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

15.
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Mcluhan, Marshall

16.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
McKenna, Richard

17.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Hugo, Victor

18.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
Twain, Mark

19.
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
Rosenbach, A. S. W.

20.
Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.
Buckingham, Duke of

21.
What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.
Sinyavsky, Andre

22.
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
Brooke, Rupert

23.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Leacock, Stephen B.

24.
The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
Twain, Mark

25.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Butler, Samuel

26.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Woolf, Virginia

27.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Wycherley, William

28.
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William

29.
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Kempis, Thomas

30.
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
Mencken, H. L.

31.
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
Hood, Thomas

32.
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

33.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Lee, Harper

34.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Thoreau, Henry David

35.
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Gibbon, Edward

36.
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
Lamb, Charles

37.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
Milton, John

38.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Adler, Mortimer J.

39.
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Maugham, W. Somerset

40.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Disraeli, Benjamin

41.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
Disney, Walt

42.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Rohn, Jim

43.
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Bury, Richard De

44.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Marx, Groucho

45.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Hunt, Leigh

46.
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
Lytton, Lord Edward

47.
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

48.
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
Miller, Henry

49.
Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

50.
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Guin, Ursula K. Le


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