Reading Quotes
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Elizabeth Hardwick
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn
Joseph Addison
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Joseph Addison
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon
Books are not made for furniture,but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
John Andrew Holmes
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
David Viscott
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Walter Savage Landor
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading
Rufus Choate
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky
Margarine? Thats not food. I Cant Believe Its Not Butter? I can. If youre planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I wont be able to help you.
Anthony Michael
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
Vera Mary Brittain
