Books - Reading Quotes
182 quotations about Books - Reading
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Beware of the person of one book.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
Books succeed, and lives fail.
Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
Authors on Books - Reading
Dawn Adams
Mortimer J. Adler
Amos Bronson Alcott
American Proverb
St. Thomas Aquinas
Isaac Asimov
W. H. Auden
Richard Bach
Francis Bacon
E.S. Barrett
Stan Barstow
Charles Baudelaire
Henry Ward Beecher
Hilaire Belloc
Stephen Vincent Benet
Aneurin Bevan
Augustine Birrell
Professor Blackie
Ray Bradbury
Joseph Brodsky