Books & Reading Quotes
Some quotes live at the crossroads of two themes. This collection gathers 16 quotes about both books and reading — words that speak to how the two belong together.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
Reading is a conversation. All books talk.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
We read to know we are not alone.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip — impossible to stop.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
A book holds a house of gold.