Book Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.”
– John Ruskin

“A book worth reading is worth buying.”
– John Ruskin

“If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ‘em!”
– John Waters

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
– Jorge Luis Borges

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
– Joseph Brodsky

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
– Joseph Joubert

“I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.”
– Joseph Smith, Jr.

“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

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books.”
– Julian Barnes

“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
– Kurt Vonnegut

“In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.”
– Lady Gaga

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
– Lemony Snicket

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
– Madeleine L’Engle

“Every reader finds himself. The writer‘s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”
– Marcel Proust

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”
– Marcel Proust

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
– Mark Twain

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
– Mark Twain

“Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.”
– Mark Twain

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
– Mark Twain

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
– Mark Twain

“‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.”
– Mark Twain

“Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.”
– Mark Twain

“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.”
– Marsha Norman

“Rereading, we find a new book.”
– Mason Cooley

“Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.”
– Mason Cooley

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
– Maya Angelou

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
– Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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