Books Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.
John Ruskin
All books are divisible into two classes the books of the hour and the books of all time.
John Ruskin
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
Thomas Carlyle
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
M. E. Tupper
A room without books is a body without a soul.
Cicero
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 control.
Arthur Schopenhauer
When I am dead, I hope it may be said “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read”.
Hillarie Belloc
Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
Samuel Johnson
Better than’ all measures,
Of delight sound,
Better than all treasures,
That in books are found
Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground.
Shelley
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
Ernest Dimnet
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of degenerations and notice.
Thoreau
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
Reading all the good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Rene Descartes
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one, you will feel that it all happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you.
Ernest Hemingway
I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, June 10, 1815
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1972
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Richard Steele
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
