Quotes About Reading

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these. - Mr. Darcy

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings. I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

En compañía de un libro uno se aburre mucho menos.

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

With a book he was regardless of time.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

Give him a book, and he will read all day long.

and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.

Qué agradable es pasar así una velada! Declaro que no hay placer como la lectura. ¡Cuánto más pronto cansa cualquier otra cosa que un libro! Cuando tenga casa propia me creeré desgraciada si no poseo una excelente biblioteca.

All this she must possess, added Darcy, and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want.

She talked to her, listened to her, read to her; and the tranquillity of such evenings, her perfect security in such a tête-à-tête from any sound of unkindness, was unspeakably welcome to a mind which had seldom known a pause in its alarms or embarrassments.

And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;...

I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.

She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.

Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading and sedentary pursuits.

If a book is well written i always find it too short