Top Books Quotes

The world is small. Books make it bigger.

Books have a complete disregard for your feelings. They don't care if you are crying. They are going to continue making you cry.

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it?

The responsibility of a dictionary is to record a language not set its style.

'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.

Books provided much-needed ballast - something we both craved, amid the chaos and upheaval...

An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

So many books, so little time.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Those who have assets must withdraw them from the markets of loans. Do not accept notes of loan on speculation. The time will soon come when you will gain no profits from the market of loans, and your...

He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of books.

Read great books and be great.

I cannot live without books.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it.