Books Quotes
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
Atwood, Alan
No books are lost by lending except those you particularly want to keep.
Auden, W.H.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Bacon, Francis
Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.
Benet, Stephen Vincent
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert
Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.
Byron, Lord
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.
Channing, William Ellery
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Choate, Rufus
A book is the only immortality.
Cicero
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Colton
I have somewhere seen it observed, that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not harm it.
Colton
Many books require no thought from those who read them, 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.
Fadiman, Clifton
When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Forster, E.M.
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.
Fuller, Margaret
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Hazlitt, William
If I have not read a book before,it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or threehundred years ago.
Hemingway, Ernest
All good books have one thing in common—they are truer than if they had really happened.
Jackson, Holbrook
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Johnson, Samuel
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Lichtenberg, G.C.
A book is like a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
Macaulay, Thomas B.
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
Marlowe, Christopher
I cannot read, and wish all books were burnt. I am lean with seeing others eat. O, that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone! Then thou shoulds't see how fat I would be. [Envy, in Faustus]
Matthews, William
The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained, in free and easy chat with others.
Matthews, William
Talking is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books. A full mind must have talk, or it will grow dyspeptic.
Milton, John
As good almost kill a man, as kill a good book; who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
Milton, John
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Parker, Theodore
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Paterson, Samuel
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen
Russell, Bertrand
There must be an ideal world, a sort of mathematician's paradise where everything happens as it does in textbooks.
Russell, Bertrand
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
Tupper
A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever.
Twain, Mark
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Voltaire
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Wilde, Oscar
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written, That is all.
Wilde, Oscar
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.