Books Quotes

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

The two biggest sellers in any book store are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women.

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, – and that is a book honestly come by.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.

The lowbrow is a person who often believes that a bad book is good; the highbrow is a person who as often believes that a good book is bad.

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid.

If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful House; and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for; I should answer; A […]