Books
Quotes on Books
Immortal sons deifying their sires.
Plato (428-347 Bc) Greek philosopher
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer
O, let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
A man’s library is a sort of harem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher
No furniture is as charming as books, even if you never open them.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English clergyman, writer
A book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Groucho Marx (1890-1977) American comic actor
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author
Every condensation of a good book is a foolish mutilation.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist, moralist
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
Rose Macaulay (1889-1958) British novelist, essayist
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish novelist, essayist, poet
What is written is merely the dregs of experience.
Franz Kafka. (1883-1924) German novelist, short story writer
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English prime minister
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin (1819-1900) English critic
A good book is the best of friends, the same today as forever,
Martin Tupper (1810-1889) English author, poet, inventor
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471) German monk, mystic
Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere (1622-1673) French playwright
Without books God is silent.
Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) Danish physician
