Book Quotes

14007 Book quotes by 5720 unique authors

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied… — A A Milne
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book. — Robert Green Ingersoll
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we… — Leo Rosten
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will… — Herman Melville
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we… — Samuel Johnson
And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise. and knowledgeable people… — Rajneesh
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a… — Isaac D'Israeli
But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says 'Your Hero's Photo Here,'… — Brad Meltzer
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books. — Jennifer Weiner
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are… — A. S. Byatt
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. — Milla Jovovich
On her daughter, Jessica: Kids at her school will sidle up to me and say, Does Jessica know what happens in book 4? Does Jessica… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd… — Brad Meltzer
The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this… — Sharon Olds
You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?' — Michael Gove
[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if… — Thomas Jefferson
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of… — Thomas Jefferson
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people… — Thomas Sowell
That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people. — Heinrich Heine
Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of… — Sean Connery
The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's… — Norman Cousins
However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power… — Stephen R. Donaldson

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