200+ Unforgettable Book Quotes From Beloved Classics

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

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

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.