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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
- Mallarme, Stephane
Books - reading Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
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

2.
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

3.
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
Neruda, Pablo

4.
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Bennett, Arnold

5.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Leacock, Stephen B.

6.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Harington, John

7.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

8.
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

9.
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

10.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Ruskin, John

11.
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.
Fuller, Margaret

12.
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
Thackeray, William M.

13.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine

14.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
Twain, Mark

15.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

16.
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
Hood, Thomas

17.
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. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.
Clarendon

18.
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

19.
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

20.
A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
Carey, Joyce

21.
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
Morely, John

22.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Frost, Robert

23.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Butler, Samuel

24.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Asimov, Isaac

25.
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.
Burgess, Anthony

26.
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

27.
Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Baudelaire, Charles

28.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Bevan, Aneurin

29.
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

30.
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Maclennan, Hugh

31.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
Collier, Jeremy

32.
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
Kingsley, Charles

33.
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

34.
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
Coolio

35.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

36.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Dane, Frank

37.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Descartes, Rene

38.
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
Pound, Ezra

39.
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Bloom, Allan

40.
When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.
Baldwin, James

41.
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
Mencken, H. L.

42.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Hunt, Leigh

43.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Townsend, Atwood H.

44.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Benet, Stephen Vincent

45.
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

46.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Hugo, Victor

47.
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Locke, John

48.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Camus, Albert

49.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Tupper, Martin

50.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Whitman, Walt


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