Books - Reading Quotes

182 quotations about Books - Reading
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Rene Descartes · Books - Reading
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens · Books - Reading
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Isaac Disraeli · Books - Reading
Never judge a book by its movie.
J. W. Eagan · Books - Reading
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Books - Reading
Never read any book that is not a year old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Books - Reading
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Books - Reading
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Books - Reading
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Books - Reading
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus · Books - Reading
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
William Faulkner · Books - Reading
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry Fielding · Books - Reading
Read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert · Books - Reading
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Edward M. Forster · Books - Reading
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Anatole France · Books - Reading
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Benjamin Franklin · Books - Reading
Read much, but not many books.
Benjamin Franklin · Books - Reading
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Robert Frost · Books - Reading
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Margaret Fuller · Books - Reading
A book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas Fuller · Books - Reading
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
W. Fusselman · Books - Reading
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Edward Gibbon · Books - Reading
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Edward Gibbon · Books - Reading
I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn · Books - Reading
I have read your book and much like it.
Moses Hadas · Books - Reading

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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