Quotations on Books

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Quotations on Books

A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page. A book produced in electronic format is known as an electronic book (e-book).


1. So many books, So little time.

2. There is no friend as loyal as a book. -- Ernest Hemingway

3. A room without books is like a body without a soul. ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

4. The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ― Jane Austen

5. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain

6. I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ― Jorge Luis Borges

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

8. Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. ― Lemony Snicket

9. Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read. ― Mark Twain

10. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ― Oscar Wilde

11. Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. ― John Green

12. There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ― Joseph Brodsky

13. So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall. ― Roald Dahl

14. Think before you speak. Read before you think. ― Fran Lebowitz

15. Never judge a book by its movie. ― J.W. Eagan

16. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ― Marcus Tullius

17. Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ― Humphrey Carpenter

18. Books are the mirrors of the soul. ― Virginia Woolf

19. Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ― Cassandra Clare

20. Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. ― J.K. Rowling

21. We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. ― Jules Verne

22. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. ― Franz Kafka

23. Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. ― Hermann Hesse

24. A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ― Italo Calvino

25. Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? ― David Baldacci

26. Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ― Anatole France

27. Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ― Anon

28. A house without books is like a room without windows. ― Horace Mann

29. Books are the compass and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. ― Jesse Lee Bennett

30. Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. ― Vera Nazarian

31. Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. ― Harold Bloom

32. If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! ― John Waters

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