Quotes About Reading

May we take my uncle's letter to read to her? Take whatever you like, and get away.

it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading...

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

I am no indiscriminate novel reader.

Prefieres leer a jugar? —La señorita Elizabeth Bennet es una gran lectora y no encuentra placer en nada más.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

I will read you their names directly; here they are in my pocket-book. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will last us some time. ' '...but are they all horrid? Are you sure they are all horrid?' 'Yes, quite sure; for a particular friend of mine, a Miss Andrews, a sweet girl, one of the sweetest creatures in the world, has read every one of them.

it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.

it is very worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Amaba el campo y los libros, y de semejantes aficiones había extraído sus principales goces.

I should indefinitely prefer a book.

It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey

La personne, homme ou femme, qui n'éprouve pas de plaisir à la lecture d'un bon roman ne peut qu'être d'une bêtise intolérable.

En mi opinión, no hay placer mayor que la lectura.

Es gran lectora, y no encuentra placer en otra cosa.

She's a great reader and takes pleasure in nothing else.

Què agradable es pasar la tarde así!En mi opinión, no hay mayor placer que la lectura. En compañía de un libro uno se aburre mucho menos. Cuando tenga casa propia me creeré muy desgraciada si no poseo una excelente biblioteca.

His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read.

The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and dissipation of unpleasant ideas which only reading could produce made her thankfully turn to a book.

Broken hearts, unrequited love and inconsolable misery are subjects which, most fortunately, I have only ever read in books.

I have formed my plan, and am determined to enter on a course of serious study. Our own library is too well known to me, to be resorted to for any thing beyond mere amusement. But there are many works well worth reading at the Park; and there are others of more modern production which I know I can borrow of Colonel Brandon. 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." Elinor

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Miss Bingley's attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr. Darcy's progress through his book, as in reading her own; and she was perpetually either making some inquiry, or looking at his page. She could not win him, however, to any conversation; he merely answered her question, and read on. At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it was the second volume of his