Quotes About Reading

You shall read them, if you behave well,' said the old gentleman kindly; 'and you will like that, better than looking at the outsides,--that is, in some cases; because there are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

The prospect of seeing them no more, contributed greatly to calm her agitation, and, taking up a book, she composed herself to read.

Si estábamos orando, abrir la Biblia en los Salmos y comenzar a leer. Si sentimos pesadez en los ojos y en la mente leyendo las Escrituras, cerremos la Biblia por unos minutos y alabemos conscientemente a Dios.

It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

The cricket is a small, black, ambulatory noise surrounded by a sentimental aura. On occasion it lives in the open fields, but its favorite habitat is behind a couch or under a bookcase in a room where somebody is trying to read.

I love my love with a B... because in our teens we stayed all night at each other's house on alternate Saturdays and read aloud until four in the morning Brontë's "Jane Eyre"... (but not without weeping)!

And my experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.

If you haven't owed a library fine at least once in your life, you're not a real reader.

Library fines are my favorite charitable donation.

Lucy: What in the world is so great about having a library card? Linus: It's what it stands for! They trust me! They're honoring my desire for knowledge with their trust! In return I'm showing my faith in their library by reading their books… it's a common bond of trust… Lucy: You haven't got a library card… you've got a treaty!

Linus: Just think, Charlie Brown… my own library card! Charlie Brown: I hope you make good use of it by taking out all the books you can read. Linus: I suppose that would be more practical... I was thinking of having it framed!

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there; but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book, & ransack every page.

Quoter's curiosity is a disease whose only cure is more reading.

Book lovers never go to bed alone.

she has books in her lap and ideas in her head she has colorful dreams when she reads in bed

Books at bedtime, most enchanting Half-asleep, dipping our cozy feet Into fantasy and dreams so sweet.

A dirty book is rarely dusty.

I like to party, and by party I mean a slumber party for one with plenty of books to read.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.