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336 Good Book quotes by 268 unique authors

But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior… — Isaac Asimov
O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot… — Richard Llewellyn
Tis the good reader that makes the good book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and… — Groucho Marx
I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole… — Nancy Pearl
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book. — David McCullough
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it… — Penelope Fitzgerald
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some… — John Lithgow
We are in a great school, and we should be diligent to learn, and continue to store up the knowledge of heaven and of earth,… — Brigham Young
A good book is an event in my life. — Stendhal
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes… — Christopher Morley
Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while… — Ron McLarty
It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or… — Charles Dickens
Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to… — Betty Smith
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. — Francis Bacon
If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good… — Daniel Handler
I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven… — Dean Koontz
....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about… — Mortimer Adler
A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall. — Virginia Euwer Wolff
I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them. — Hugo Chavez
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good… — Ezra Pound
Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book. — Fulton J. Sheen
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book. — Edward Abbey
I never thought I could write this much and now that it's coming to an end, I feel sad that I have to stop, sort… — James Howe

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