Quotes and sayings about tag  #books

Quotes and sayings about tag  books

444 Quotes

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

Günter Grass

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Gustave Flaubert

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Guy de Maupassant

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

H.P. Lovecraft

What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.

Hanya Yanagihara

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

Haruki Murakami

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

Haruki Murakami

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Heinrich Heine

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Keller

I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.

Helene Hanff

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Henry David Thoreau

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

Henry James

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Henry Miller

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

Henry Miller

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Hilary Mantel

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Holbrook Jackson

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

Holly Black

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Horace Mann

It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.

Ilona Andrews

I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.

Ilona Andrews

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

Isabel Allende

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