Quotes about Books

"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
-- Aneurin Bevan

"A book might be written on the injustice of the just."
-- Anthony Hope

"The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions."
-- Christopher Dawson

"A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out."
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

"The newest books are those that never grow old."
-- George Holbrook Jackson

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more."
-- John Harington

"Deep versed in books and shallow in himself."
-- John Milton

"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time."
-- John Ruskin

"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen."
-- Joineriana

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
-- Joseph Brodsky

"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
-- Joseph Joubert

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
-- Marcus T. Cicero

"Books and marriage go ill together."
-- Molire

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
-- Ray Bradbury

"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
-- Robertson Davies

"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
-- Samuel Johnson

"Everything in the world exists to end up in a book."
-- Stephane Mallarme

"Books are not men and yet they stay alive."
-- Stephen Vincent Benet

"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."
-- Thomas Kempis

"Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash."
-- Vladimir Nabokov

"A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations."
-- William Murray