Book Quotes

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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. — Thomas Carlyle
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for… — Moliere
All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me. — Michel de Montaigne
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books. — Cardinal Richelieu
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. — Frank Moore Colby
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham
Taste is the literary conscience of the soul. — Joseph Joubert
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the… — Henry David Thoreau
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to… — Samuel Johnson
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no… — Theodore Dreiser
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. — Barbara Cartland
The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. — John Quincy Adams
Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all… — Noah Webster
If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours. — Paris Hilton
I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars. — George Carlin
Books without the knowledge of life are useless. — Samuel Johnson
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to… — Elbert Hubbard
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope
Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately… — Barack Obama

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