200+ Unforgettable Book Quotes From Beloved Classics

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

Me, poor man, my libraryWas dukedom large enough.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

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

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

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.

I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.