Antidote Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.

— Colson Whitehead

By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided.…

— Samuel Johnson

“It’s a red letter day, too: the new set of science textbooks has finally arrived. This may not seem much to you but I…

— Frank Chalk

“Books, by their very nature and variety, help us grow in empathy for others, in tolerance and awareness. But they should increase our skepticism…

— Michael Dirda

“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

“I had been opposed to the practice of dedicating books; I had held that a book is addressed to any reader who proves worthy…

— Ayn Rand

When a new book appears one should read an old one.

— Winston Churchill

To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider every book…

— Harold Monro

You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more…

— Robert Gottlieb

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I…

— Winston Churchill

“If a person reads a good book—they become permanently changed. They can’t even help it. They can’t unlearn what they’ve learned. It will always…

— Loretta Lost

The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender…

— John Dryden