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Books Quotes by Mark Twain
- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
- I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it.…
- The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However…
- People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
- Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use…
- There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon…
- We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.
- Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of…
- Books are the liberated spirits of men.
- Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass…
- In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which…
- More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.
- Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
- In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without…
- I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but…
- Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
- What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is…
- Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
- If books are not good company, where shall I find it?
- There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the…
- Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
More Books Quotes
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on… — Norman Ralph Augustine