100+ Best Books Quotes

100+ Best Books Quotes

414 Quotes

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Here are some inspirational quotes from Books and also discover the inspiring things that have been said about books and motivating things that have been said about reading by authors, poets, scientists,

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Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

John Piper

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Joseph Brodsky

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

Julia Quinn

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

Elizabeth Kostova

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

Elizabeth Kostova

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.

Elizabeth Scott

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.

Ellen Hopkins

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.

Emily Dickinson

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

Emma Thompson

Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.

Kellie Elmore

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

L.M. Montgomery

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

L.M. Montgomery

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Madeleine L'Engle

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Erika Johansen

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

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.

Eugene Field

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

Mark Glamack

Classic? - a book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

Franz Kafka

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

Mark Twain

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

Martin Luther

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Franz Kafka

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Franz Kafka

Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.

Fulton J. Sheen

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Mortimer J. Adler

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Muriel Barbery

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

Gabrielle Zevin

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

Gail Carriger

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

Gail Carson Levine

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Gary Paulsen

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Gaston Bachelard

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

George Carlin

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

George Gissing

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