Books
Quotes - Paradise will be a kind of library
“So
many books, so little time.”
―
Frank Zappa
“A
room without books is like a body without a soul.”
―
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The
person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be
intolerably stupid.”
―
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Good
friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
―
Mark Twain
“Fairy
tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but
because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
―
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“Outside
of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
―
Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
“If
you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what
everyone else is thinking.”
―
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I
have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
“I
have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
―
Jorge Luis Borges
“You
can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
―
C.S. Lewis
Never
trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
“Never
trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
―
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
“Sometimes,
you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you
become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together
unless and until all living humans read the book.”
―
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
If
one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
“If
one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading
it at all.”
―
Oscar Wilde
“There
is no friend as loyal as a book.”
―
Ernest Hemingway
“I
find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into
the other room and read a book.”
―
Groucho Marx
“What
really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish
the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him
up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
―
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“It
is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when
you can't help it.”
―
Oscar Wilde
“One
must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside
them, for words have the power to change us.”
―
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
“If
there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you
must write it.”
―
Toni Morrison
“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, Pride and Prejudice