Books Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

127 Books Quotes
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
Garrison Keillor Quotes
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”
B. F. Skinner Quotes
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Only your friends steal your books”
Voltaire Quotes
“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”
Theodore Parker Quotes
“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
Paul Sweeney Quotes
“Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can”
William Feather Quotes
“He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter”
Isaac Barrow Quotes
“My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.”
Thomas Helm Quotes
“I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands”
Seneca Quotes
“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way”
Caroline Gordon Quotes
“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”
Heinrich Heine Quotes
“Books are humanity in print.”
Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
“People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.”
William Styron Quotes
“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.”
Gilbert Highet Quotes
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
“It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?”
James Matthew Barrie Quotes
“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”
Oprah Winfrey Quotes
“The book you don't read can't help”
Jim Rohn Quotes
“Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.”
Richard Eder Quotes