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 |
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 |
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. - 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; - 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 |
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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 Download or Share |
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 Quotes by Bell Hooks |
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. - Charles De Secondat Download or Share |
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 |
