Books Reading Quotes

Books Reading Quote of the day

Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

...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...

There is no other enjoyment like reading

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

With a book he was regardless of time...

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.

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

great books are the ones we need

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?

There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.

Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

I guess there are never enough books.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.