Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

Best Quotes about Books - reading

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Hugo, Victor

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Shaw, George Bernard

This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Parker, Dorothy

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

There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Hemingway, Ernest

Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring

Chappell, Warren

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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Wilde, Oscar

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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Channing, William Ellery

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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

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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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A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat.

Miller, Henry

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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

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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.

Day, Clarence

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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

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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

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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

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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Porter, Noah

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Spielberg, Steven

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A book that is shut is but a block.

Fuller, Thomas

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To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

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

Lee, Harper

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Blackie, Professor

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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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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

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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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 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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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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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

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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

Sterne, Laurence

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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

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

Pound, Ezra

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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