200+ Unforgettable Book Quotes From Beloved Classics

Literature is news that stays news.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.

For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets locked inside.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous.

You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one.

I only want power so I can get books.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

No two persons ever read the same book.

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.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.