100+ Best Books Quotes

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

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inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

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

François Mauriac

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

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

Erasmus

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

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

Irving Stone

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

Francis Bacon

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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

Francis Bacon

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

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

Jorge Luis Borges

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

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

Christopher Morley

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : 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.

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.

John Green

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

C.S. Lewis

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.

Sylvia Plath

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

Robertson Davies

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.

Jasper Fforde

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Robin Sloan

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

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

George R.R. Martin

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : 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.

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

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

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

William Styron

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

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

Haruki Murakami

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

John Milton

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

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

Cassandra Clare

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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

Malcolm X

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

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

Orhan Pamuk

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : A room without books is like a body without a soul.

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.

Alessandro Baricco

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

Andrew Carnegie

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

C.S. Lewis

Of course I loved books more than people.

Diane Setterfield

What better place to kill time than a library?

Diane Setterfield

No two persons ever read the same book.

Edmund Wilson

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : 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.

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

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

Astrid Lindgren

Come with me,' Mom says.To the library. Books and summertimego together.

Lisa Schroeder

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

I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.

Sarah J. Maas

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind

Andy Andrews

. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.

Neil Gaiman

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

C.S. Lewis

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Horace Mann

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