Book Quotes

14007 Book quotes by 5720 unique authors

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every… — William Morris Hunt
A book is the only immortality. — Rufus Choate
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. — Jan Morris
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. — Elizabeth Hardwick
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. — Anatole Broyard
Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them. — George Bernard Shaw
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. — Gilbert Highet
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in… — Erma Bombeck
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am… — George Burns
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

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