Books Quotes

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

Why is The Origin of Species such a great book? First of all, because it convincingly demonstrates the fact of evolution: it provides a vast and well-chosen body of evidence showing that existing animals and plants cannot have been separately created in their present forms, but must have evolved from earlier forms by slow transformation.

Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

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

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

I spend a lot of time reading.

In the humble environs of my boyhood, books were a scarce commodity. By local standards, however, the personal library of STR Manickam, a former 'revolutionary' or militant nationalist, was sizeable. He encouraged me to read all I could and I often visited his home to borrow books.