Book Quote by Anthony Trollope

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

— Anthony Trollope

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

— Samuel Butler

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures…

— Anonymous

“Reading is reading - no matter what the material.”

— Giovanna Fletcher

“What I mean by reading is not skimming, not being able to say as the world saith, "Oh, yes, I've read that!," but reading…

— Anonymous

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

— Oscar Wilde

There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being…

— Maryanne Wolf

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

— Anonymous

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might…

— Hannah More

Reading begets reading.

— Nick Hornby

I'm Iron Man no cheap cash metal. I'm steel alloy. True identity hidden inside secret tabloids.

— Ghostface Killah

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So…

— Jamaica Kincaid