There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
Books Quotes
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
I have no pleasure from books which equals that of reading over the hundredth time great productions which I almost know by heart.
In my title I revive the word ‘chrestomathy’ in its true sense of ‘a collection of choice passages from an author or authors.’… When this book was announced, some newspaper smarties protested that the word would be unfamiliar to many readers, as it was to them. Thousands of excellent nouns, verbs and adjectives that have […]
A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Until it is kindled by a spirit as lovingly alive as the one which gave it birth, a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
