Quotes About Books

Indeed, a man's library is a sort of harem, and I observe that tender readers have a great prudency in showing their books to a stranger.

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.

Knowledge lives at the library, and the nice people there always let us take some home.

Librarians are generals in the war on ignorance.

Library work is far too pleasant to be grossly profitable.

Library fines are my favorite charitable donation.

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!

Books talk to you for an afternoon. Literature speaks for generations.

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 am searching for my feelings through shelves of dusty books can't help but feel I've left them in some forgotten ancient nooks as if an author long before me captured my emotions in his day and saved them in fine poetry for future me to find someway

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.

To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler.

The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.

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

Bedtime reading is a doorway to dreams.

Reading in bed jumpstarts dreams.

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.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

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.

Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?

Os livros idiotas animam a gente. Se não fossem eles, nem sei quem se atreveria a começar.