There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Books Quotes
Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child.
People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge.
There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house.
I have no pleasure from books which equals that of reading over the hundredth time great productions which I almost know by heart.
In my title I revive the word ‘chrestomathy’ in its true sense of ‘a collection of choice passages from an author or authors.’… When this book was announced, some newspaper smarties protested that the word would be unfamiliar to many readers, as it was to them. Thousands of excellent nouns, verbs and adjectives that have […]
A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Until it is kindled by a spirit as lovingly alive as the one which gave it birth, a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
