I’m sure you love books…and I’m sure you like quotes…and I’ll bet you like books of quotes. Well, this is a page of quotes about books. Enjoy:
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. -James Bryce
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. -Unknown
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. -G.K. Chesterton
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. -Charles W. Eliot
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. -Mark Twain
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. -William Hazlitt
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. -Thomas Helm
The books which help you most are those which make you think most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. -Theodore Parker
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. -Paul Sweeney
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. -Franz Kafka
Books are dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.” -Helen Exley
Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by. -Bulstrode Whitlock
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. -Charles Dudley
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. -Edmund Burke
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. -William Feather
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. -Caroline Gordon
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them. -George Bernard Shaw
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. -Henry David Thoreau
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. -Elizabeth Hardwick
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. -Mark Twain
Any thoughts about book quotes…or just thoughts about books? Please share in the comment section below. And please make sure to click the Like button too. Thanks!
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I like Elizabeth Hardwick’s comment. It just makes more sense to me.
Checkout Oscar Wilde – “There are no bad books, only bad writers”.
Check out Oscar Wilde – CORRECTION – the true quote is –
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written”. The edited version is punchier though…
hey, please keep up the good work.
we like your website. the thoughts are wonderful.
Hello Shawn,
All the quotes are wonderful my favourite are:
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. -William Hazlitt
The books which help you most are those which make you think most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. -Theodore Parker
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. -Paul Sweeney
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. -Henry David Thoreau
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. -Elizabeth Hardwick
I believe reading books is important because it develops the mind. Understanding is one way the mind grows in its ability. Through reading books we develop language skills. It also helps us to learn to listen. Everybody wants to talk, but few can really listen. Lack of listening skills can result in major misunderstandings. Reading books helps us to focus on what someone else is communicating.
Reading books also helps us to discover new things, develop our imagination, take us on adventures, and create drama, suspense, and intrigue. With reading, a person can go anywhere in the world…or even out of it! The possibilities are endless.
Reading books is important because words – spoken and written – are the building blocks of life. You are, right now, the result of words that you have heard or read AND believed. What you become in the future will depend on the words you believe now. People, families, relationships, and even nations are built from words.
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle
Books are the windows through
which the soul looks out.
Henry Ward Beecher
A good book is the precious life-blood
of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured
up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton
Take care always!
Thanks Lee. Wouldn’t it be great if we could get paid to just stay at home and read? I’d love to find a way to take this website to the next level and make it my career! Imagine reading and searching out quotes all day? I know people have made a living from writing book reviews, or proofreading (like fellow thought-of-the-day subscriber Crystal…see crystalclearproofing.com) or even writing books! And was it Franklin that said those who read the best books write the best books? Or Thoreau? Or Emerson?
When I was 16, I made a goal to read a book every month, and I kept it up for many years. With the Internet now, I rarely read anymore! Strange. But I still love to do so…and my heart jumps when I see small-town bookstores; I just want to go in and find a treasure. But if you’re like me, you probably have bookcases full of books that you still need to get around to reading….
Oh, I drove by your publisher the other day; been up there like 4 times in the past 2 weeks. Such a beautiful area….
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly- Francis Bacon.