Quotations on Books - Quotations and Proverbs on Books
- A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers. – Ernest Dimnet
- A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper. – Chinese Proverb
- A book is a success when people who haven’t read it pretend they have. – J. Mc. Charthy
- A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. – Thomas Carlyle
- A good book it the best friend, the same to-day and forever. – M. F. Tupper
- If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. – John Ruskin
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. – Oscar Wilde
- It is one of the misfortunes of life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them. – Thomas De Quincy
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon
- A room without books is a body without a soul. – Cicero
- Books without the knowledge of life are useless. – Samuel Johnson
- I place good books among the absolutely essential possessions. – Voltaire
- I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who does not love reading. – Macaulay
- It would be good if one could, when buying books, also buy the time to read them, for people too often confuse acquisition with understanding of their content. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you - such is pleasure beyond compare. – Yashida Kenko
- Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn’t poor. – Sam Levenson
- All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. – John Ruskin
- A dose of poison does its work once, but a bad book can go on poisoning people’s minds for any length of time. – John Murray
- It is books that teach us to refine our pleasure when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. – J. H. Leigh Hunt
- The wise man reads both books and life itself. – Lin Yutang
- When I am dead, I hope it may be said, “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.” – Hilaire Belloc