Book Quote by Victor Hugo

[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 don't trust books. They're all fact and no heart.

— Stephen Colbert

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“…these books have their own integrity, their own identity. It is not about the words in there. You don’t need to read these books.…

— Stevan V. Nikolic

“Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters, defilers, the…

— Virginia Woolf

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

— Umberto Eco

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

— Glen Cook

The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.

— Richard Dawkins

My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, scrupulous, lying, diabolically…

— Henry Miller

Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense and his…

— Earl Of Chesterfield

My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.

— Umberto Eco

“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear…

— Edward P. Morgan