Thoughts of Book Quotes in English with Images

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Woe be to him that reads but one book.

- George Herbert Thoughts

There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book.  The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I Say "derivative." the conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.

- Anna Quindlen

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

- Charles W. Eliot

Books… are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence.  If you again fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

- Horace Mann

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books.  They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

- Michel de Montaigne

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by th former as by the latter.

- Paxton Hood

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight.  He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

- Robertson Davies

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, ad some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Book Quotes List and Sayings

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

- Cicero Quotes

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

- Cicero

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

- Dame Rose Macaulay Quotes

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

- Dame Rose Macaulay Quotation

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

- Edith Sitwell Quotes

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

- Edith Sitwell

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

- Evan Esar Quotes

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

- Evan Esar

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

- Frank Zappa

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

- A Quotation From Frank Zappa

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

- George Herbert *

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly.  It should be thrown with great force.

- Dorothy Parker

A good novel tells u the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

- G.K. Chesterton

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it.  It is like falling in love.

- Christopher Morley

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.  Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

- Groucho Marx

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

- Harold Bloom

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

- Henry David Thoreau

Never judge a book by its movie.

- J. W. Eagan

Book Sayings in English

Properly, we should read for power.  Man reading should be man intensely alive.  The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

- Ezra Pound

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

- Henry James

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where is human nature os weak as I the bookstore?

- Henry Ward Beecher

Oh for a book and a shady nook…

- John Wilson

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

- John Witherspoon

All books are divisible into two classes: books of the hour, and books of all time.

- John Ruskin

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

- Kathleen Norris

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas.  They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

- Lenore Hershey

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

- Milton

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

- Lord Action

This book fills a much-needed gap.

- Moses Hadas

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

- Marie de Sevigne

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

- Mark Twain

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

-Mark Twain

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

- Mark Twain

I have read your book and much like it.

- Moses Hadas

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. Will waste no time reading it.

- Moses Hadas

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.  Books are well written or badly written.

- Oscar Wilde

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

- P. J. O'Rourke

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

- Christopher Morley

Books are not men and yet they are alive;
They are men's memory and his aspiration;
The link between his present and his past;
The tools he builds with.

- Stephen Vincent Bennet

Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.

- Ralph Novak

Book Quotation in English

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

- Robertson Davies

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, Ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

- Salman Rushdie

I read part of it all the way through.

- Samuel Goldwyn

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

- Sir Arthur Helps

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

- Sir Richard Steele

Live always in the best company when you read.

- Sydney Smith

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

- Upton Sinclair

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

- Voltaire

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

- W. H. Auden Thoughts

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

- Arnold Lobel

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

- Disraeli

Most books these days seem to have been written in a day, using books read the night before.

- Chamfort

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

- G. K. Chesterton

From the moment I picked up you book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

- Groucho Marx Thoughts

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

- Groucho Marx Thought

The covers of this book are too far apart.

- Book Quote by Ambrose Bierce

The covers of this book are too far apart.

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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

- Austin PheLps

You can cover a great deal of country in Books.

- Andrew Lang

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

- Book Quote by Bell Hooks

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

- Book Quotes by Bell Hooks

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

- Charles De Secondat Quotes

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes very poor doorstop.

Alfred Hitchcock

Don't join the book burners.  Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence tha they ever existed.  Don't be afraid to go in you library and read every book….

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Knowing I love my books, he furnished me From my own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

- William Shakespeare

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind to much from its creative pursuits.  Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

- Albert Einstein