Famous Reading Quotes
There is a great deal to be said in favor of reading a novel backwards.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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 is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Nature's landscapes are like pages of a living book, inviting us to read and explore its stories.
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
