Hope Quote by C. S. Lewis

I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

— Spike Milligan

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by…

— Gilbert Highet

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read…

— Anonymous

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will…

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes.”

— Virginia Woolf

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

— Lin Yutang

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

— Spike Milligan

“The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.”

— C.S. Lewis

“The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. Most men have learned…

— Thoreau Henry David

“The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“You cannot locate Shakespeare in his own works, not even in the sonnets. It is in this near invisibility that encourages the zealots who…

— Harold Bloom