Best things Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort of person…

— Alan Jacobs

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“While the consequences are often quite hellish, I am absolutely and perhaps permanently against ignoring books recommended from the heart by very nice people…

— J.D. Salinger

Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.

— Alexandra Petri

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

— Gertrude Atherton

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the…

— William Butler Yeats

We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and…

— Holbrook Jackson

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

— Anne Lamott

“Reading good books spoils you for enjoying bad books.”

— Annie Barrows

Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

— Mason Cooley