Book Quote by John Frederick Boyes

“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one nature wrote…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Here is a book so dull that a whirling dervish could read himself to sleep with it. If you were to recite even a…

— Clive James

I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library…

— George Eliot

“He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was covered from floor to…

— James Stephens

“I have inherited fragrance of classic books. Drilling the wall for light, hair tied to a beam in fear of drowsing, I wrest from…

— Lisa See

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had always thought…

— Cornelia Funke

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of…

— Henry David Thoreau

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed…

— Spencer Tracy

Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse,…

— Geoffrey Chaucer