Quotes about reading
116 quotes from 88 people
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
It seems to me that the dedication of a library is in itself an act of faith.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Remarks at the Dedication of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, New York, United States of America (June 30, 1941)
J. K. Rowlingborn 1965Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 London Premiere (July 2011)
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Conquest of Happiness (1930)Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980), Episode 11, “The Persistence of Memory”- Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos (1980), p. 282
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet1628–1699Miscellanea (1690), Part II, “Upon the Ancient and Modern Learning”.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 42.How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.
Martin Farquhar Tupper1810–1889Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849), Of ReadingA classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
