Books Quotes

Samuel butle - an apology for the devil: it must be remembered...
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
Christopher Dawson
An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books.
Samuel Butle
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.
Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
Francis bacon - some books are to be tasted, others to be...
I still find each day to short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burrough
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.
Van Wyck Brooks
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.
Paul Fussell
Benjamin franklin - read much, but not many books....
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burrough
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
William Lyon Phelps
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles W. Eliot, The Happy Life, 1896
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.
Henry Ward Beeche
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookne
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.
Paxton Hood
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Loomis Pound
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Sir John Denham
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
Vartan Gregorian
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
Umberto Eco
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - But it is terrible when one has to live it.
Jean Anouilh
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
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.
Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - That work I abhor - Then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.
Katherine Paterson
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Sir Francis Bacon
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1820
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery
It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.
H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science - Fiction Treasury of H. G. Wells".
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
Franois Maurice Mitterrand
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. Dort, wo man B? cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.
Heinrich Heine, From his play Almansor (1821)
You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire
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 by the latter.
Paxton Hood