Books Quotes and Sayings

Here are some sayings and quotes about book.

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.”
~James Bryce

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”
~Abraham Lincoln

“I didn’t write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.”
~Larry Hagman

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
~Garrison Keillor

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way”
~Caroline Gordon

“Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.”
~Samuel Johnson

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.”
~Aldous Huxley

“Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.”
~ George William Curtis

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
~P. L. Travers

“‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.’
~ Winston Churchill

“Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are” is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread. ”
~François Mauriac

“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ”
~P.J. O’Rourke

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ”
~Chinese Proverb

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.”
~Helen Exley