Quotes about Books

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Samuel Johnson

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands.

George R. R. Martin

Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.

Jim Rohn

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

Francis Bacon

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Henry Ward Beecher

Books - lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Edwin Percy Whipple

The things I want to know are in books, [...] my best friend is the man who`ll get me a book I ain`t read.

Abraham Lincoln

It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time in which to read them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Charles Dickens

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Mark Twain

Good books don`t give up all their secrets at once.

Stephen King

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

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

Oscar Wilde