200+ Unforgettable Book Quotes From Beloved Classics

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!'Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gateAnd though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when IShall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.