Book Quotes: Literary Pearls of Wisdom

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"No two persons ever read the same book"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

John Donne, Poet

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time"

John Ruskin, Writer

"Beware of the person of one book"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"Years teach us more than books"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them"

Mark Twain, Author

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

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away"

Doug Coupland, Author

"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"The true university of these days is a collection of books"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles"

R. L. Stine, Writer

"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read"

Mark Twain, Author

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"A book that is shut is but a block"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Americans like fat books and thin women"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing"

Moliere, Playwright

"The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing"

Richard Wright, Novelist

"Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going"

James Laughlin, Poet

"I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume"

Paul Theroux, Novelist

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!"

Edgar Bergen, Actor

Page 1 of 53