books quotes

• There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. (Charles Dickens) [books]
• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. (Henry Ward Beecher) [books/furniture]
• A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [conversation/books]
• A multitude of books distracts the mind. ( Socrates) [books/mind]
• Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. (John Milton) [books/life/intellect]
• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. (Joseph Addison) [books/genius/mankind/generation]
• Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. (Wystan Auden) [money/books]
• Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. (Wystan Auden) [books]
• Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested. (Francis Bacon) [books]
• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. (Henry Ward Beecher) [books/furniture]
• When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. (Hilaire Belloc) [books]
• Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. (Walter Benjamin) [books]
• Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. (Walter Benjamin) [books/method/writers/people]
• They lard their lean books with the fat of others work. (Richard Burton) [books]
• The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. (Samuel Butler) [books]
• What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. (Thomas Carlyle) [university/collection/books]
• After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. (Thomas Carlyle) [knowledge/books/university/collection]
• The true university of these days is a collection of books. (Thomas Carlyle) [university/collection/books]
• If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. (Raymond Chandler) [books]
• Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [books/books]
• Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [reading/books/more/knowledge]
• A room without books is like a body without a soul. (Marcus Cicero) [books/soul & body]
• We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. (Marcus Cicero) [desire/more/books/contempt]
• Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. (Charles Caleb Colton) [books]
• Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy. (Charles Caleb Colton) [books/willpower/fail]
• The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries. (Rene Descartes) [reading/books/conversation/men]
• There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. (Charles Dickens) [books]
• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. (Walt Disney) [more/treasure/books/treasure]
• Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing. (Benjamin Disraeli) [books/human/books/books]
• Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. (Benjamin Disraeli) [books/books]
• An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. (Benjamin Disraeli) [books/bad/mother]

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