Famous Books Quotes
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Nature's winter tableau is a mesmerizing blend of contrasts — the starkness of bare branches against the purity of snow-covered fields, and the softness of animal tracks imprinted on the frozen canvas. Winter, in all its frosty splendor, is a chapter in the book of nature, reminding us of the cyclical rhythm and quiet beauty inherent in the changing seasons.
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
Nature's landscapes are like pages of a living book, inviting us to read and explore its stories.