We 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 are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate
Jesse Lee BennettBooks, like friends, should be few, and well chosen
Samuel PatersonAs 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 LyndeYou can cover a great deal of country in books
Andrew LangIt wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
William FaulknerMy books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, 'You are a thief.'
MartialMy father said, 'There are times to sit, or stand and be counted,'
When good people die, just laws are forsaken, banned books smolder,
There comes a time when our steed must be armored and mounted;
The balance of good and evil rests on our collective shoulders.
Jason MercheyAs life goes on, don't you find that all you need is about two real friends, a regular supply of books, and a Peke?
P G WodehouseThe wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin YutangBooks think for me. I can read anything which I call a book
Charles LambBooks, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
Helen RowlandYouth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
Lionel TrillingA bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
GalbraithIn the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob DylanUnlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair
Edward YoungWe go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
Robert KiyosakiThe most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
Laurence SterneThe biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie CollinsBooks are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
Esther ForbesI am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned
Christopher MarloweBooks are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph AddisonAll of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl SaganFor 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.
Gene FowlerI suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.
E M ForsterBooks are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAll books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words
Amy LowellThere is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
Ezra PoundBooks let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
William HazlittWe are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry FieldingThe silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations
Henry GilesBooks, the children of the brain.
Jonathan SwiftWho 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 PatonObservation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson AlcottBecause they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other.
William DavenantI've written books on advertising... cheque books.
Alan SugarIf 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 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 HelvetiusYou do know I'm wanting to borrow books, not money or a key to a suite at the Cipriani?
Lucy ManganWhat literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books
A S ByattBookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.
Barbara Taylor BradfordBooks are not men and yet they stay alive.
Henry Ward Beecher Some books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it. [On the novel Spares]
David BaddielWell, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine MansfieldA house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Horace MannI 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 BurroughA bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance, but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
John GalbraithLet's tell young people the best books are yet to written: the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them [a nice and positive quote!]
John ErskineRead much, but not many books.
Gustav Flaubert
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