Books Quotes

Books are humanity in print.

Barbara W. Tuchman

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

William Styron

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet

The book you don't read can't help

Jim Rohn

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain

A book is the only immortality.

Rufus Choate

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Charles Lamb

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Samuel Butler

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Wystan Hugh Auden

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Gaston Bachelard

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madames, greeting the punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs and then pimping their books.

Guy Browning

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Thomas Carlyle

"Classic": A book which people praise but don't read.

Mark Twain

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Lin Yutang

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

James Bryce

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Chinese Proverb

A book is to me like a hat or coat - a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off.