Books Quotes and Sayings


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

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

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it!
John Ruskin

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 Proverb

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

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Rebecca West

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

For books are more than books, they are the life
The very heart and core of ages past,
The reason why men lived and worked and died,
The essence and quintessence of their lives.
Amy Lowell

For friends… do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Francis Bacon

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P.J. O’Rourke

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

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

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

He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
Isaac Barrow

There is no frigate like a book, To take us lands away.
Emily Dickinson

In the middle of the silence in a writer’s house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
Richard Eder

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
Seneca

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus

Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books.
Earl of Chesterfield

All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
Amy Lowell

Books are embalmed minds.
Bovee

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.
George Bernard Shaw

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Elizabeth Hardwick

A library is thought in cold storage.
Herbert Samuel

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

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
Ann Richards

Books are humanity in print.
Barbara W. Tuchman

A book is to me like a hat or coat - a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off.
Charles B. Fairbanks

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
Franz Kafka

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