Good Quotes About Book

A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end.  You live several lives while reading it.  

William Styron

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.  

Author Unknown

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

Groucho Marx

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. 

Kenko Yoshida

"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.  

François Mauriac

 

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.  

Ross MacDonald

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.  

André Maurois

We are too civil to books.  For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. 

Francis Bacon

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. 

Holbrook Jackson

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.  

Logan Pearsall Smith

A blessed companion is a book, - a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own.  

Douglas Jerrold

Many persons read and like fiction.  It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.  

Rose Macaulay

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.  

Chinese Saying

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind. 

Ishmael Reed

My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander. 

Alphonse Daudet

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. 

W. Somerset Maugham

Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.  

Charles Lamb