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.

Abraham Lincoln

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Voltaire

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.

Samuel Johnson

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

Carlo Goldoni

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine – but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Joseph Joubert

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.

Thomas Jefferson

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Charles Lamb

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Heinrich Heine

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Emily Dickinson

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Charles Baudelaire

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Fortunately everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

René Descartes

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Ambrose Bierce

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Virginia Woolf

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.

H. P. Lovecraft

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.

John Greenleaf Whittier

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

John Donne

Nature's landscapes are like pages of a living book, inviting us to read and explore its stories.

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