Because Quote by Marion Bailey

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end,…

— Roger Ascham

“The idea that reading is a moral quality has unhappily led many conscientious persons to renounce their innocuous dalliance with light literature for more…

— Edith Wharton

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his…

— Stanley Baldwin

“A woman at one of mother's parties once said to me, "Do you like reading?" which smote us all to silence, for how could…

— Rachel Ferguson

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

— Marshall McLuhan

That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

— Anonymous

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

— Stephen King

“The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove, that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers that…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“A humour of reading books, except those of devotion or housewifery, is apt to turn a woman's brain... All affectation of knowledge beyond what…

— Jonathan Swift

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the…

— James Madison

“Sara, who snatched her lessons at all sorts of untimely hours from tattered and discarded books, and who had a hungry craving for everything…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson