No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure…

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)”

— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.

— Katy Perry

When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very…

— David McCullough

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

— John Ashbery

' No entertainment is so fugal, as reading, nor any Pleasure so Lasting!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count…

— Bennett Cerf

Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying.

— Dawn Foster

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

— Beverly Cleary

“Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by…

— Larry Brown

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

— Joan Rivers

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

— P. D. James

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

— Charles Clarke

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My…

— Jo Walton

When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we…

— Adam Smith