200+ Unforgettable Book Quotes From Beloved Classics

As always, one of her books was next to her.

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

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

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

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

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.

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

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.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

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

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

Come with me,' Mom says.To the library. Books and summertimego together.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.