Book Quote by Leigh Hunt

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

— Leigh Hunt

“Books give us pleasure not because they make us comfortable, though some good ones may, but because they entertain us, they make us laugh,…

— William McPherson

“A books should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.”

— Samuel Johnson

“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and…

— Virginia Woolf

“What we read with pleasure we read again with pleasure.”

— Horace

“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine,…

— Gregory Maguire

“Books were a dependable pleasure.”

— Wendell Berry

“No matter what our age, we ought to never stop eating books, for books are the feast of the imagination.”

— Robin R. Meyers

“Each of us will make his own shelf of books. The book for me is the book that delights, attracts, soothes, or uplifts me.”

— Maurice Francis Egan

“Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's…

— Aidan Chambers

“I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain, and because…

— Laini Taylor

“When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.”

— Alice Walker