Books Quotes

But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.

You will need to come in as soon as possible, the sooner we treat this, the better the chance of recovery…”Rose began to cry. “Will I die?”The doctor didn’t reply.Treatment began only days later, Rose took to it really well, phoning Kelly was the hardest part of telling the news, but Kelly supported her mother, offering to take some time out and come home to take care of her.Rose went into remission, the cancer was brought under control and Jim planned a holiday for her in Spain.Madeleine McCann a three-year-old child went missing in Portugal.Heavy flooding devastated Hull and Sheffield at least three people died. Four fire fighters were feared dead in the ‘Atherstone fire disaster.

Ruth Watson-Morris

It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a books

Gérard de Nerval

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.

Alan Ryan

Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.

Jean-Claude Carrière

I could decorate a whole city with books!

Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Chinese Proverb

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

There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.

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

Sir Francis Bacon

Laws die Books never.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A book is the only immortality.

Beware of the man of one book.

Isaac D'Israeli

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us terrify us teach us comfort us open their hearts to us as brothers.

Charles Kingsley

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Walter Savage Landor

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

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself kills the image of God as it were in the eye.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books.

Voltaire

If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.

G. C. Lichtenberg

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

Goethe

I am a part of all I have read.

Reading is the work of the alert mind is demanding and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

E B White

I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

Francis Yeats-Brown

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

Daniel J. Boorstin

A good title is the title of a successful book.

Raymond Chandler

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.

William Jovanovich

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.

A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.

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 favourite book.

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

If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.

The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.

I read part of it all the way through.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Marshall McLuhan

First publication is a pure carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

Hortense Calisher

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.

A good book has no ending.

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!

Bible

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

James Russell Lowell

I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Mortimer J. Adler

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

Books think for me.

Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all.

William Dean Howells

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Benjamin Jowett

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