Books Quotes and Sayings - Page 7
Go, litel book, go litel myn tragedie.
O moral Gower, this book I directe To thee.
Geoffrey Chaucer
I have known her pass the whole evening without mentioning a single book, or in fact anything unpleasant at all.
Henry Reed
The book you don’t read can’t help.
Jim Rohn
‘Tis pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print;
A book’s a book, although there’s nothing in’t.
Lord Byron
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
I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudie’s.
Samuel Butler
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one’s mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can even survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.
George Orwell
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Anonymous
There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don’t understand them; sold by people who don’t understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don’t understand them; and now even written by people who don’t understand them.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
William Styron
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
John Milton
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Elizabeth Hardwick
Child! do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures out!
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
Hilaire Belloc
From my point of view, a book is a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it.
S.M. Crothers
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
John Ruskin
He fed his spirit with the bread of books.
Edwin Markham
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
Henry Ward Beecher
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire
A house without books is like a room without windows.
Heinrich Mann
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