Quotes on Books

A room without books is like a body without a soul. ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ― Jane Austen

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ― Jorge Luis Borges

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room
and read a book. ― Groucho Marx

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. ― Lemony Snicket

Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read. ― Mark Twain

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ― Oscar Wilde

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. ― John Green

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
― Joseph Brodsky

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you
can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall. ― Roald Dahl

Think before you speak. Read before you think. ― Fran Lebowitz

Never judge a book by its movie. ― J.W. Eagan

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ― Marcus Tullius

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ― Humphrey Carpenter

Books are the mirrors of the soul. ― Virginia Woolf

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ― Cassandra Clare

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. ― J.K. Rowling

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the
vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. ― Jules Verne

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. ― Franz Kafka

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no
concept of humanity. ― Hermann Hesse

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ― Italo Calvino

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? ― David Baldacci

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library
are books that other folks have lent me. ― Anatole France

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.
― Anon

A house without books is like a room without windows. ― Horace Mann

Books are the compass and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have
prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. ― Jesse Lee Bennett

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in
more light. ― Vera Nazarian

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. ― Harold Bloom

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!
― John Waters