Anonymous on Books
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend.
William Shakespeare on Books
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with
volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.
W. Somerset Maugham on Books
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. H. Auden on Books
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
Voltaire on Books
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Upton Sinclair, on his novel on Books
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
Sir Richard Steele on Books
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Francis Bacon on Books
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Robertson Davies on Books
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Robertson Davies on Books
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.