Quotations from and for lovers of books

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”  Marcus Tullius Cicero

“So many books, so little time.”  Frank Zappa

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”  Groucho Marx

“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”  G.K. Chesterton

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”  Jorge Luis Borges

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”   Oscar Wilde

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”  C.S. Lewis

“Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.”  Mark Twain

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”  Haruki Murakami

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”  Charles William Eliot

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”  George R.R. Martin

“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

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” Gustave Flaubert

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”  Ray Bradbury

“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”  C.S. Lewis

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