It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.
Frederick Locker-LampsonBooks think for me. I can read anything which I call a book
Charles LambBookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.
Barbara Taylor BradfordBooks are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara TuchmanObservation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson AlcottBut, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.
Isaac DisraeliIf a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace ThackerayIn the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential - the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin.
Jeffrey FarnolBooks are not men and yet they stay alive.
Henry Ward Beecher Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
Julian BarnesBooks are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
B C ForbesWhat literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books
A S ByattIf my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come
Raymond ChandlerTo read too many books is harmful.
Mao ZedongBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint
Mark TwainPreachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Theodor GeiselEngland did nothing in the World Cup, so why are the players bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals, we played like sh*t, here's my book'. Who wants to read that? I don't. [To be fair he has an excellent point - it's not even like they need the cash on their salaries!]
Joey BartonNever lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole FranceIt wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
William FaulknerTo limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves
Claude Arien HelvetiusMy books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, 'You are a thief.'
MartialThe man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
John DawkinsBooks are a languid pleasure
MontaigneObviously there will be a sense of achievement... I suppose there will be some benefits to not writing Harry Potter books any more. So it is about fifty-fifty really
J K RowlingIf sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Bette MidlerI have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
Wendell FordAs far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted
Paul LyndeIt is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
William FaulknerYouth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
Lionel TrillingIf the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all
Francois De Salignac FenelonI still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John BurroughBooks are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
W B YeatsHistory books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole FranceThere is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
Ezra PoundBooks that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel JohnsonThe profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou can cover a great deal of country in books
Andrew LangCensorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard ShawYou importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them
MartialThe newest books are those that never grow old
Holbrook JacksonAlthough most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
Norman AugustineWho knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan PatonThe biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie CollinsYou've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Spike LeeThe wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin YutangBooks of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.
Robert AndrewsBooks, like friends, should be few, and well chosen
Samuel PatersonIf you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
Lily TomlinWe should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Tryon EdwardsBooks, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J P Getty
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