| Author |
Quotes |
| Sir Arthur Keith | The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously. |
| Sir Christopher Wren | Choose an author as you choose a friend. |
| Sir James M Barrie | The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. |
| Sir Peregrine Worsthorne | Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. |
| Stephen Vincent Benet | Books are not men and yet they stay alive. |
| Theodore Parker | The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. |
| Thomas B Macaulay | This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant. |
| Thomas Carlyle | The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. |
| Thomas Fuller | Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. |
| Unattributed Author | Medicine for the soul. |
| W H Auden | A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. |
| Walter Savage Landor | What is reading, but silent conversation. |
| Warren Chappell | The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. |
| William Ellery Channing | Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. |
| William Hazlitt | If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. |
| William Murray | A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. |
| William Osler | It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them. |
| Yevgeny Zamyatin | Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. |
| Previous - 1 - 2 - 3 - Page 4 Next |