200+ Unforgettable Book Quotes From Beloved Classics

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

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.

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.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can.

Reading is reading - no matter what the material.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.