Books - Quotes and Proverbs

Books are your best friends. This is a collection proverbs and quotes about books.

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

Franz Kafka

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

Louis Pasteur

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. That's why I read so much.

(unknown author)
Source: Game of Thrones
Quoted: Tyrion Lannister

A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Blind is the bookless man.

Books and cats and fair-haired little girls make the best furnishing for a room.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Stephen King

Don't believe everything you read, not even in a good book.

Minkukel

Don't judge a book by its cover.

Don't look only at apprearances.

Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.

Kim Lehman

Give an apple to the little ones, a book to the old.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I love words.

Richard Dawkins

I read it in a book.

Samwell Tarly

I thought up an ending for my book. "And he lives happily ever after, till the end of his days."

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Bilbo
Quote from the movie

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Toni Morrison

Life is too short to read a bad book.

James Joyce

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Vladimir Nabokov

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

S.E. Hinton

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Edith Sitwell

Never judge the book by its movie.

J.W. Eagan

October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.

John Sinor

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

Reading ... a vacation for the mind.

Dave Barry

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Source: Anne of Green Gables

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.

Zoe Sugg

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it’s a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.

Lex Luthor

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

Stephen Hawking

Statler: You think this show is educational?
Waldorf: Yes it will drive people to read books.

(unknown author)
Source: The Muppet Show

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Agatha Christie

The book was better.

(unknown author)
Often said after seeing a movie.

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

Anthony Trollope

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Melody Beattie

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Convincing people with words and ideas is more effective than forcing them to do what you want.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen
Source: Northanger Abbey

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

John Steinbeck

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

David Attenborough

The science, or it may be an art, of librarianship is an exercise in applied taxonomy.

Richard Dawkins

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Saint Augustine

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Joseph Joubert

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

Herman Melville