Book Quotes

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This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never… — Groucho Marx
Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write… — Groucho Marx
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — H. L. Mencken
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H. L. Mencken
I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase. — Henny Youngman
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. — Jerome K. Jerome
Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money. — P.J. O'Rourke
Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset. — Victor Borge
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. — W. Somerset Maugham
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. — Thomas Love Peacock
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it… — Winston Churchill
I never really know the title of a book until it's finished. — Mary Wesley
If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine. — Thomas a Kempis
Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth. — Nick Hornby
I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough… — Dilys Laing
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll… — John Grisham
Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me. — William Wordsworth
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books. — A. Whitney Brown
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to… — Lawrence Clark Powell

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