Books Quotes and Sayings

Books and friends should be few but good.
Proverb

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
Thomas Carlyle

A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.
Martin Farquhar Tupper

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
John Ruskin

At last, an unprintable book that is readable.
Ezra Pound

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Mark Twain

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
T. S. Eliot

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

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
Oliver Goldsmith

A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it’s great, it should be read at least three times.
Anatole Broyard

We all know that books burn - yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory…In this war, we know, books are weapons.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
Jeremy Collier

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
John Ruskin

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.
Daniel J. Boorstin

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

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner

When a new book is published, read an old one.
Samuel Rogers

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

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

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

A good book has no ending.
R.D. Cumming

A classic is a book which people praise and don’t read.
Mark Twain

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Edwin P. Whipple

In recommending a book to a friend the less said the better. The moment you praise a book too highly you awaken resistance in your listener.
Henry Miller

Americans like fat books and thin women.
Russell Baker