Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by… — Edwin Paxton Hood
The end of reading is not more books but more life. — Holbrook Jackson
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind… — Edward Abbey
I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. — Elias Canetti
Books worth reading are worth re-reading. — Holbrook Jackson
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades… — Francois Fenelon
Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for… — Saint Augustine
(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I… — Therese of Lisieux
The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to… — Benjamin Rush
I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then,… — Gore Vidal
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire… — John Keats
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating… — Paulo Coelho
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often. — Barack Obama
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my… — Ed Bradley
As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them.… — Maurice Sendak
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. — Neil Gaiman
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation… — Virginia Woolf
Books succeed; and lives fail. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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

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