Book Quotes

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. (Thomas Jefferson)
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. View quote
Carlo Goldoni
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. View quote
George Sand
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. View quote
Franz Kafka
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. View quote
Groucho Marx
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. View quote
Groucho Marx
Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. View quote
Groucho Marx
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. (Thomas Carlyle)
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. View quote
Robertson Davies
"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read. View quote
Mark Twain
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. View quote
Joe Frazier
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. View quote
Norman Cousins
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. View quote
Ezra Pound
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. View quote
Norman Mailer
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. (Ambrose Bierce)
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. View quote
Alice Walker
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. View quote
P. L. Travers
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. View quote
Rebecca West
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. View quote
Oscar Wilde