Best Quotes about Books - reading
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
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.
Colton, Charles Caleb
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
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
Styron, William
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
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Forster, Edward M.
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
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Jefferson, Thomas
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
Chambers, Oswald
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
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Fusselman, W.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Williams, Bert
A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
Carey, Joyce
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.
Cooley, Charles Horton
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Phelps, William Lyon
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Jackson, George Holbrook
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare.
Kenko, Yoshida
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Gibbon, Edward
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
In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Ruskin, John
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Leacock, Stephen B.
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
Proverb, Italian
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
West, Jessamyn
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.
Johnson
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William
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.
Beware of the person of one book.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Fuller, Margaret
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
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Spielberg, Steven
A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Johnson, Samuel
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Carlyle, Thomas
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
Fadiman, Clifton
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Belloc, Hilaire
What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.
Mccay, James T.
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Eco, Umberto
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Maugham, W. Somerset
Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
Byron, Lord
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.
Kingsley, Charles
In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Byron, Lord
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
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
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Wesley, John
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Carter, Angela
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