Book Quote by Honore de Balzac Download Open image “Reading brings us unknown friends” — Honore de Balzac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Reading
We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there. — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
Reading is always a way of forming a bond with other people. I'm not very good at socializing - I quite like spending time… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
“What shall I do with all my books?' was the question, and the answer, 'Read them,' sobered the questioner. But if you cannot read… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with books and… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“If you have friends who say they don't read, you need new friends. That is my final answer.” — Niedria Dionne Kenny Copy Share Image
“We read to understand our intuition of the world, to discover that someone a thousand miles and years away has put into words our… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
