Quotations on Books - Quotations and Proverbs on Books

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers. – Ernest Dimnet
A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper. – Chinese Proverb
A book is a success when people who haven’t read it pretend they have. – J. Mc. Charthy
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. – Thomas Carlyle
A good book it the best friend, the same to-day and forever. – M. F. Tupper
If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. – John Ruskin
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. – Oscar Wilde
It is one of the misfortunes of life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them. – Thomas De Quincy
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon
A room without books is a body without a soul. – Cicero
Books without the knowledge of life are useless. – Samuel Johnson
I place good books among the absolutely essential possessions. – Voltaire
I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who does not love reading. – Macaulay
It would be good if one could, when buying books, also buy the time to read them, for people too often confuse acquisition with understanding of their content. – Arthur Schopenhauer
To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you - such is pleasure beyond compare. – Yashida Kenko
Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn’t poor. – Sam Levenson
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. – John Ruskin
A dose of poison does its work once, but a bad book can go on poisoning people’s minds for any length of time. – John Murray
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasure when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. – J. H. Leigh Hunt
The wise man reads both books and life itself. – Lin Yutang
When I am dead, I hope it may be said, “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.” – Hilaire Belloc

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