Quotes About Books

Soy una apasionada de los libros escritos por testigos oculares.

you leave me sitting here writing long margin notes in library books that don't belong to me, some day they'll find out i did it and take my library card away.

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.

Well, if your books cost what they're worth, I couldn't afford them.

contenía todos los libros y tratados escritos sobre el tema de las grandes narices». (¡Frank! ¡Consígueme un Tristram Shandy!) No

Mis amigos son muy peculiares...Leen todos los bestsellers que caen en sus manos. Pero luego JAMÁS releen nada, con lo que al cabo de un año no recuerdan ni una palabra de lo que han leido.

jamás he conseguido interesarme por cosas que sé que jamás les ocurrieron a personas que nunca han vivido. ¿y qué hace usted ahí todo el día, sentado en la trasera de su tienda y leyendo sin parar? ¿por qué no trata de venderle algún libro a alguien?

Tienes el Viaje a América de De Tocqueville? Alguien tomó prestado el mío, y no me lo ha devuelto. ¿Por qué será que personas a las que jamás se les pasaría por la imaginación robar nada encuentran perfectamente lícito robar libros?

Mis amigos son muy peculiares en cuestión de libros. Leen todos los best sellers que caen en sus manos, devorándolos lo más rápidamente posible…, y saltándose montones de párrafos según creo. Pero luego JAMAS releen nada, con lo que al cabo de un año no recuerdan ni una palabra de lo que leyeron.

Según entienden ellos la cosa, compras un libro, lo lees, lo colocas en la estantería y jamás vuelves a abrirlo en toda tu vida, ¡PERO NUNCA LO TIRAS! ¡JAMÁS DE LOS JAMASES SI ESTÁ ENCUADERNADO EN TAPA DURA! Pero… ¿por qué no? Personalmente creo que no hay nada menos sacrosanto que un mal libro e incluso un libro mediocre.

Si vuestros libros costaran lo que valen, yo no podría permitirme comprarlos.

I own 150 books, but I have no bookcase. Because nobody will lend me a bookcase.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

And what of Nature itself, you say – that callous and cruel engine, red in tooth and fang? Well, it is not so much of an engine as you think. As for "red in tooth and fang," whenever I hear the phrase or its intellectual echoes I know that some passer-by has been getting life from books.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

To Fleming, and to his readers, James Bond was a real person living in the modern world. The details of his life appear only sporadically in the books, but they proved vitally important in grounding him in his time, which made his extraordinary and often implausible adventures seem possible.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

L'anecdote, cette moisissure qui se forme sur tous les livres.

Reading musses up my mind.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

There is an immense amount to be learned simply by tinkering with things. It is not possible to learn from books how everything is made—and a real mechanic ought to know how nearly everything is made. Machines are to a mechanic what books are to a writer. He gets ideas from them, and if he has any brains he will apply those ideas.

Initially, 2,000 copies were printed. Today this seems a modest figure, but the market was not huge: as late as the 1790s Edmund Burke estimated the reading public at below 100,000.

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

Vereker's secret… the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet.