Book Quotes - Page 9

• A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Reading, Drunk, May

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

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• I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

  John Adams

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Letter to Abigail Adams, www.masshist.org. December 28, 1794.

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• Laws die, books never.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Reading, Law, Dies

  "Richelieu" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Act I, scene 2, 1839.

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• I cannot live without books.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Beer, Literacy

  Letter to John Adams, 10 June 1815

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• A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

  Edward P. Morgan

  Inspirational, Reading, Reading Books

  Edward P. Morgan (1963). “Clearing the air”, Washington, D.C.

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• Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

  Charles William Eliot

  Reading, Library, Librarian

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Life, Thinking, Human Nature

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.

  J. C. Ryle

  Firsts, Heed, Plenty

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• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  J. Paul Getty

  Reading, Age, Dignity

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• Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Time, Class

  Sesames and Lilies "Of Kings' Treasuries" (1865)

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• A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Friendship, Reading, Forever

  'Proverbial Philosophy' Series I (1838) 'Of Reading'

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• A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Blood, Purpose, Burning

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Reading, Lobster, Ems

  "The Unpleasantness at The Bellona Club". Book by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1928.

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• In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be.

  Marcel Proust

  Moving, Philosophical, Reading

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• We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Friendship, God

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Shade of His Hand: Talks on the Book of Ecclesiastes”, p.82, Discovery House

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• Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

  E. M. Forster

  Long, Criticism, Wish

  and Related Writings (1974) p. 129

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• Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

  George R. R. Martin

  Healing, Sleep, Teens

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.419, Bantam

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• We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

  John Lubbock

  Travel, Library, Earth

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• The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.

  Romain Rolland

  Fire, Impact, Essence

  "Journey Within". Book by Romain Rolland. Chapter 2: "The Three Revelations", 1947.

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• Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Learning, Written

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “On Reading: From "Walden"”, p.6, Princeton University Press

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• There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Reading, Way

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Reading, Men, Half

  Speech in New York City, November 19, 1905.

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• The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Music, Art, Writing

  Closing remarks at an eClass forum in Barnes & Noble University, December 05, 2004.

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• I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Reading

  William Lyon Phelps (1935). “... Yearbook”

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