200+ Unforgettable Book Quotes From Beloved Classics

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.