200+ Unforgettable Book Quotes From Beloved Classics

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

You can never, never have too many books

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

What better place to kill time than a library?

Of course I loved books more than people.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.