Book Quotes

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  You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
  Paul Sweeney


• Let books be your dining table,And you shall be full of delightsLet them be your mattressAnd you shall sleep restful nights.
  Author Unknown


• Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.
  Author Unknown


• A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
  Edward P. Morgan


• If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
  Toni Morrison


• Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total.
  Forsyth and Rada


• A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
  Charles Lamb


• The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
  James Bryce


• To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
  Kenko Yoshida


• A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.
  Author Unknown


• I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.
  Groucho Marx


• Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
  Charles W. Eliot


• There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.
  Joe Ryan


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


• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
  Mark Twain


• A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
  William Styron


• Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life.
  Helen Exley


• I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
  Anna Quindlen


• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
  Groucho Marx


• I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
  Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu


• Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
  William Hazlitt


• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
  Abraham Lincoln









• I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
  George Robert Gissing


• A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
  Chinese Proverb


• My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
  Thomas Helm


• TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book.
  Author Unknown


• Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
  Christopher Morley


• The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
  Andrew Ross


• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
  E.M. Forster


• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
  Mark Twain


• People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading
  . Logan Pearsall Smith


• Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
  Augustine Birrell


• He fed his spirit with the bread of books.
  Edwin Markham


• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
  Henry Ward Beecher


• How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
  Henry David Thoreau


• The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
  Ross MacDonald


• An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
  Augustine Birrell


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


• That place that does containMy books, the best companions, is to meA glorious court, where hourly I converseWith the old sages and philosophers;And sometimes, for variety, I conferWith kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;Calling their victories, if unjustly got,Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,Deface their ill-placed statues.
  Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher


• A house without books is like a room without windows.
  Heinrich Mann


• When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.
  Clifton Fadiman


• The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
  Samuel Butler


• Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
  Charles Kingsley


• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.
  Gilbert Highet


• The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
  André Maurois


• A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.... What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
  Henry David Thoreau


• The wise man reads both books and life itself
  . Lin Yutang


• To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.
  Chinese Saying




Thank you for passing by my book quotes. I will be honest and say I found it hard to stop adding more and more quotes I enjoyed reading these quotes more than I can explain. I loved every one of the above book quotes. Each reminded me of just how much books mean to me and my absolute love for them and the experiences I have when I read one. I hope these amazing book quotes evoked the same emotions they did in me. Till next time.




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