Best Reading Books Quotes

205 Reading Books quotes by 182 unique authors

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money. — P.J. O'Rourke
Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset. — Victor Borge
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. — W. Somerset Maugham
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them — Anatole France
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. — Milla Jovovich
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. — Unknown Author
I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start… — Gracie Allen
You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come… — Bob Hope
You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict. — Leonard Ravenhill
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have… — William Hazlitt
I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather. — Leigh Hunt
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand. — Henry David Thoreau
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books. — Richard de Bury
There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for… — Harry Allen Overstreet
I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking. — Lucian
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books,… — Vernon Howard
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading. — Holbrook Jackson
Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in good stead under every variety of circumstances and be a source of happiness… — John Herschel
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading. — Thomas Carlyle
The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in the… — Mario Savio
Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance. — Amy Plum
I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply. — Ernest Hemingway
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully… — Manuel Puig
Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see… — Peter Ustinov

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