Quotes About Books

And nothing reminds me so much of the monthly parts of Notre-Dame de Paris, and of various books by Gérard de Nerval, that used to hang outside the grocer's door at Combray,

The end of a book's wisdom appears to us as merely the start of our own, so that at the moment when the book has told us everything it can, it gives rise to the feeling that it has told us nothing.

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those we had regarded as not being lived at all : the days spent wholly with a favourite book

The Duc de Guermantes was not overpleased by these offers. Uncertain whether Ibsen and D'Annunzio were dead or alive, he could see in his mind's eye a tribe of authors, playwrights, coming to call upon his wife and putting her in their works. People in society are too apt to think of a book as a sort of cube one side of which has been removed, so that the author can at once 'put in' the people he meets

Thus God, whose will it is that a few well-written books should exist, breathes disdain into the hearts of the Mmes Leroi, for He knows that, should they invite the Mmes de Villeparisis to dinner, then these would immediately leave their writing desks and order their carriages for eight o'clock.

Ah! there is a man who justifies the wit who insisted that one ought never to know an author except through his books.

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

Leggevo, leggevo, leggevo. Ampliare le proprie conoscenze è un dramma ... "perché ogni passo in più che fai ti rende sempre più cosciente di quanto ancora ti manca da conoscere. E ti ritrovi sempre più lontano dalla soddisfazione delle tue curiosità ... E alla fine la pila di libri sul comodino continua a crescere e non basterebbero nemmeno dieci anni ..." (Pagina 71)

i tuoi romanzi ... sono sempre rimasti in camera da letto, umilmente, accanto a te; li prendevi in prestito oppure, quando li compravi, li regalavi subito, desiderosa com'eri di passare ad altri il piacere di quelle letture. ... (pagina 78)

Il piacere della lettura rischiai di perderlo per eccesso di analisi, in fin dei conti è questo che nelle università si fa con i libri: li si analizza. Quindi abbandonai i corsi e approfittai degli appunti e della magnifica biblioteca per dedicarmi, anima e corpo, coricata sull'unico divano di casa nostra, alla lettura, Il Cile stava crollando mentre io flirtavo con il bel Mr. Darcy o spalancavo le porte alla dimora di Brideshead.

Bookstores are a giant present waiting to be unwrapped, full of stories and discoveries and lives.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names

A home without books is a body without soul.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

The trouble with education is,' said Jimmy cheerfully, 'that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to reread it later. There's more sense in books, Cicily, than you'd really believe. Though, of course, they don't teach you anything vital that you can't learn for yourself.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

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Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.

Puzzavo di libri e di onestà.

There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.

these books are my good friends

I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.