Books Quote by Oscar Wilde

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

— Oscar Wilde

“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time — such as…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read…

— Thomas Jefferson

I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and…

— John Flavel

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

— Mark Twain

“There is a class whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid ; Cervantes ; Sully's…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets.

— Joseph Brodsky

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge of Courage,"…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious…

— James Joyce