Motivational Quotes

Books

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

- Austin Phelps

Best Quotes about Books

1.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann

2.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

3.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton

4.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

5.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

6.

Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.

Ralph Novak

7.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

8.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Sir Francis Bacon

9.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

10.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare

11.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Moses Hadas

12.

This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

13.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

14.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

15.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

16.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

17.

I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

18.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

G. K. Chesterton

19.

Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.

Josh Lieb

20.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Bell Hooks

21.

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Dame Rose Macaulay

22.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

23.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

24.

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Alfred Hitchcock

25.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne

26.

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

27.

Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

28.

Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

29.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Christopher Morley

30.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

31.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Charles Caleb Colton

32.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

Paxton Hood

33.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

35.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

Lenore Hershey

36.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

37.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Sir Francis Bacon

38.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

Marie de Sevigne

39.

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Charles De Secondat

40.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

41.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Kathleen Norris

42.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Upton Sinclair

43.

I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

44.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Cicero

45.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Henry James

46.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

William Goldman

47.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

48.

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

49.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

50.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx