Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

- Kirk, E.N.

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Wolfe, Thomas

Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.

Blackie, Professor

There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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

To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Aubrey, John

11.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

12.

There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

14.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Huxley, Aldous

15.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Hazlitt, William

16.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Crane, Frank

17.

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Adler, Mortimer J.

18.

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

19.

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

Lytton, Lord Edward

20.

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

21.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Brookner, Anita

22.

Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

23.

The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

25.

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

Orwell, George

26.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

27.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.

Steele, Sir Richard

28.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

29.

Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

30.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Barrett, E.S.

31.

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

More, Hannah

32.

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

Pound, Ezra

33.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Hardwick, Elizabeth

34.

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

Critchfield, Jim

35.

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

Kump, Peter

36.

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

Byron, Lord

37.

A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

Carey, Joyce

38.

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

Tupper, Martin

39.

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

Rohn, Jim

40.

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

Auden, W. H.

41.

A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

42.

The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

43.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Sandwell, B. K.

44.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Wesley, John

45.

A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

Morely, John

48.

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

Murray, William

49.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

50.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.