Book Quotes

Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring Lies open, writ in blossoms.

It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.

I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.

I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.

What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.

A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

Books wind into the heart.

The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

Films are always different from books.

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.

After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my opinion that would be a short book!

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.

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.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

In books I converse with men, in the Bible I converse with God.

Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.

Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!

The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.

Myself will straight aboard, and to the state This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; But that's all one, our play is done, And we'll strive to please you every day.

So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote.

Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.

A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.

I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

You kiss by th' book.