Book Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.”
– Stephen King

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
– Stephen King

“Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.”
– Stephen King

“I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.”
– Steven Wright

“I cannot live without books.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
– Toni Morrison

“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
– Toni Morrison

“Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.”
– Ulysses S. Grant

“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”
– Victor Hugo

“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.”
– Virginia Woolf

“I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.”
– Virginia Woolf

“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
– W. H. Auden

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates‘ loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”
– Walt Disney Company

“You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace; think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.”
– William Butler Yeats

“When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.”
– William Butler Yeats

“A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.”
– William Hazlitt

“If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.”
– William Hazlitt

“I envy the people who say, ‘oh, well, I’ve got my name in the golden book and I’m going to be entered into the pearly gates.’”
– William Shatner

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
– William Styron

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