Quotes of books (1-50)

1. “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

2.  “A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.”
― Andrew Wolfe

3. “I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

4.  “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecher

5.  “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

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

7. “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

8.  “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

9.  “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

10.  “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 William Eliot

11.  “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

13.  “Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

14.  “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

15.  “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

16.  “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami

17.  “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

18.  “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

19.  “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

― Groucho Marx

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

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

23.  “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman

24.  “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx

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

26.  “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen

27.  “So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

28. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Cicero

29.  “The covers of this book are too far apart.”
― Ambrose Bierce

30.  “A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
― Carolyn G

31.  “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

32.  “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

33.  “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

34.  “We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
― Philip Pullman

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

36.  “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

37.  “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

38.  “One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”
― J.K. Rowling

39.  “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

40.  “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
― C.S. Lewis

41.  “The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith

42.  “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens

43.  “My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

44.  “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

45.  “I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
― J.K. Rowling

46.  “What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.”
― Neil Gaiman

47.  “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

48.  “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
― J.K. Rowling

49.  “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare

50.  “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King