Book Quotes

14007 Book quotes by 5720 unique authors

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. — Julian Barnes
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure… — James M. Barrie
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. — Isaac Barrow
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient… — Dave Barry
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. — Dave Barry
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. — Dave Barry
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. — John Adams
It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15,… — Drew Barrymore
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. — Bernard Baruch
So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space… — Abu Bakar Bashir
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian… — Mario Batali
All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this… — Mario Batali
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing.… — Mario Batali
Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! — Charles Baudelaire
Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a book to read,… — Standing Bear
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of… — Joseph Addison
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose… — Samuel Beckett
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way. — Kate Beckinsale
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States… — Kate Beckinsale
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. — Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. — Henry Ward Beecher
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? — Henry Ward Beecher
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. — Henry Ward Beecher

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