Quotes About Books

The moths were fluttering all over the sign at the desk that read DASHIELL QWERTY, SUB-LIBRARIAN. He was younger than I think of librarians as being, younger than the father of anyone I knew, and he had the hairstyle one gets if one is attacked by a scissors-carrying maniac and lives to tell the tale.

These brats know a lot of words,' Shirley said, in her ridiculously fake high voice. 'They're book addicts. But we can still create an accident and win the fortune!

La gente malvagia non ha mai tempo per leggere.

I love a library. Just to walk inside one, and to breathe in a room where so much literature has been gathered, is such a powerful feeling that it often brings a tear to my eye, although that could also be my mild allergy to dust.

Some book of mine - this book of philosophy, for example - may sit ignored and lonely on a high shelf, but then someday a reader will walk into a library and spot the spine of the book they have been waiting for, and they will pluck my book off the shelf and use it to stand on, to reach the book they are excited to read.

Bluh bluh bluh," Klaus bluhed.

Cijeli svoj život Klaus je vjerovao da ako ?itaš dovoljno knjiga, možeš riješiti bilo koji problem, no sad više nije bio siguran.

Klaus watched his sister leave the library and felt a wave of hopelessness wash over him.

Villainy, I thought to myself, despite all the myths and fairy tales, despite all the stories in books and all the articles in newspapers, is not very mysterious at all. It is a person in a room.

The past can be as difficult to imagine as the future. It would be helpful in life, as in confusing books, to have an author, if that's the right word, explaining to us everything we find bewildering, in the hopes we all might feel better.

Rengetegféle könyv létezik a világon, amelyet élvezet olvasni, hiszen sokfélék az emberek is – mindenkit más érdekel.

Who you are and what you read is private in a library.

And Klaus, you are still wearing those idiotic glasses from reading too many books.

Whether is was Uncle Monty's library of reptile books, or Aunt Josephine's library of grammar books, or Justice Strauss's library of law books, or, best of all their parents' library of all kinds of books - all burn up now, alas - libraries always made them feel a little better. Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

never trust anyone without a book

Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.

If your mind is on a book, for example, you may see the world of the book around you, even if you are not reading at the time

There were no books in the room as far as I could see. I should have known better.

Wicked people never have time for reading

Wicked people never have time for reading," Dewey said. "It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

But by immersing themselves in their favorite reading topics, they felt far away from their predicament, as if they had escaped.

A library is like an island on a vast sea of ignorance.

There are some librarians so trustworthy and so interesting that you know any book they recommend will be worth your time

But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive—the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do"—to read long, dull, and difficult books.