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Books and Reading QuotesFamous Books and Reading quotes by popular authors such as Samuel Butler, Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Walter Savage Landor, John Milton, Samuel Johnson and others.
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[highlight-text]Books think for me.
Charles Lamb
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[highlight-text]Laws die Books never.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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[highlight-text]A good book has no ending.
R. D. Dimming
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[highlight-text]Beware of the man of one book.
Isaac Disraeli
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[highlight-text]A book is the only immortality.
Rufus Choate
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[highlight-text]I am a part of all I have read.
John Kieran
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[highlight-text]Book lovers never go to bed alone.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound
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[highlight-text]I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn
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[highlight-text]The dust and silence of the upper shelf.
Bob Macaulay
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[highlight-text]What is reading but silent conversation?
Walter Savage Landor
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[highlight-text]Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal
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[highlight-text]If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.
John Ruskin
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[highlight-text]A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Lytton Strachey
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[highlight-text]A good title is the title of a successful book.
Raymond Chandler
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[highlight-text]Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text]A dictionary should be descriptive not prescriptive.
Phillip Babcock Gove
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[highlight-text]I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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[highlight-text]Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.
William Jovanovich
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[highlight-text]Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.
Walt Whitman
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[highlight-text]One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Benjamin Jowett
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[highlight-text]A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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[highlight-text]You should read it though there is much that is skip-worthy.
Herbert Asquith
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[highlight-text]The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anthony Burgess
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[highlight-text]Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Sir Arthur Helps
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[highlight-text]The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.
Contanitin Comte de Volney
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[highlight-text]A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Marshall McLuhan
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[highlight-text]Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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[highlight-text]I hate books; they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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[highlight-text]To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.
Francis Yeats-Brown
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[highlight-text]Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.
Lome Pierce
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[highlight-text]All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!
Bible
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[highlight-text]Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
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[highlight-text]The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.
Gertrude Stein
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[highlight-text]The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Jean Cocteau
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[highlight-text]What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!
James Russell Lowell
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[highlight-text]The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Mortimer J. Adler
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[highlight-text]The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor
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[highlight-text]Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live not live to read.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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[highlight-text]A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]The responsibility of a dictionary is to record a language not set its style.
Phillip Babcock Gove
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[highlight-text]First publication is a pure carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
Hortense Calisher
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[highlight-text]To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.
Robert Burchfield
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[highlight-text]The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
Northrop Frye
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[highlight-text]The fact of knowing how to read is nothing the whole point is knowing what to read.
Jacques Ellul
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[highlight-text]Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.
Walter Sickert
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[highlight-text]'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.
Harry S. Truman
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[highlight-text]A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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[highlight-text]A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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[highlight-text]I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.
Anatole France
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[highlight-text]The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
John he Carri
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[highlight-text]Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.
John Harington
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[highlight-text]Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
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[highlight-text]My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan Thomas
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[highlight-text]There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Anthony Trollope
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[highlight-text]If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
Sir Arthur Helps
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[highlight-text]All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
Richard De Bury
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[highlight-text]If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton
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[highlight-text]Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
Anatole France
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[highlight-text]When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Clifton Fadiman
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[highlight-text]Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening seldom sinful and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey
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[highlight-text]The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]The walls of books around him dense with the past formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
Ross MacDonald
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[highlight-text]Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]In the case of good books the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you.
Mortimer J. Adler
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[highlight-text]Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author's mind without offense.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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[highlight-text]He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.
Arthur Balfour
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[highlight-text]Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.
Frank Davies
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[highlight-text]There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.
Marcel Proust
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[highlight-text]Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all.
William Dean Howells
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[highlight-text]It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.
Patrick Dennis
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[highlight-text]Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley
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[highlight-text]Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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[highlight-text]Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too 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
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[highlight-text]All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
Ernest Hemingway
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[highlight-text]As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself kills the image of God as it were in the eye.
John Milton
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[highlight-text]Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us terrify us teach us comfort us open their hearts to us as brothers.
Charles Kingsley
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[highlight-text]Reading is the work of the alert mind is demanding and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.
E. B. White
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[highlight-text]If a book is worth reading at all it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.
William Gerhardie