Bookish Quotes
Here is a list of all the Bookish Quotes that rotate at random on the site.
Literature is the language of society, as speech is the language of man.
- Louis, Vicomte de Bonald
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
- Mary Wortley Montagu
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
- Gilbert Highet
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
- Ezra Pound
Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.
- Jean Craighead George
A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann
I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.
- John Steinbeck
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
- Cyril Connolly
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
- Mortimer Adler
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.
- Henry Miller
When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, 'Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.'
- Virginia Woolf
A library is thought in cold storage.
- Herbert Samuel
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
- Edmund Burke
A real book is not one that we read but one that reads us.
- W. H. Auden
A good book contains more wealth than a good bank.
- Roy L. Smith
Why do we read? We read to know we are not alone.
- C. S. Lewis
Can you grow kumquats here?" Wei-Ching asked. "I've always liked kumquats." "I can grow just about anything you like!" Hsun-ching boasted. "You tell me what you want, and I'll plant it." Wei-Ching laughed and said, "Too bad you can't plant books.
- Mark Salzman
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
- Susan Sontag
It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
- Honore de Balzac
A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?
- Alexander McCall Smith
