200+ Unforgettable Book Quotes From Beloved Classics

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.

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

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

The world was hers for the reading.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

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.

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

Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.