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

Jane Austen

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Eckhart Tolle

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

Anatole France

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.

Jane Austen

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

C.S. Lewis

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)

Thomas à Kempis

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Hilary Mantel

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

John Green

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

John Green

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

Arthur Conan Doyle

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

H.P. Lovecraft

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

Neil Gaiman

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

Alberto Manguel

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

Joseph Joubert

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

George Carlin

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Kelley Armstrong

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

Thomas Babington Macaulay

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.

Alberto Manguel

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

J.K. Rowling

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Alberto Manguel

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

Neil Gaiman

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

Virginia Woolf

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

Neil Gaiman

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Thomas Carlyle

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

Orhan Pamuk

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.

Virginia Woolf

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

J.K. Rowling

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

John Green

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Virginia Woolf

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

Holbrook Jackson

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

Jane Hamilton

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

Jane Smiley

No furniture is so charming as books.

Sydney Smith

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

Bill Watterson

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

Sylvia Brownrigg

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

Joshua Slocum

Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.

Kellie Elmore

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