Books Quotes

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

Camerado, this is no book, Who touches this touches a man.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.