Books Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out…

— Jonathan Swift

“Nowadays, people read too many books to appreciate any.”

— Oscar Wilde

“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility…

— J.R. Miller

“Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the…

— Wallace Stegner

“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.”

— Anthony Powell

“Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to [the words of the wise]. Of making many books there is no end, and much…

— Ecclesiastes 12:12

“A quote is worth a thousand books.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“A wise man once said that if a book was not worth reading twice it was not worth reading once.”

— Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson

“Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.”

— Anonymous

“No book is worth reading once if it is not worth reading many times.”

— Susan Sontag

“There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But”

— Michael Robotham