Books Quotes
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.
And what is the use of a book, " thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?
...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in...
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.
This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
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.
Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please.
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.
I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.
The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.
Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.
You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.
