Book Quotes - page 2

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. (Rebecca West)
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. View quote
Don DeLillo
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes. View quote
Agatha Christie
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. View quote
Virginia Woolf
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. View quote
Salman Rushdie
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
What you don't know would make a great book. View quote
Sydney Smith
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Beware of the person of one book. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world. (Alan Rickman)
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! View quote
Charles Darwin
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. View quote
Groucho Marx
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. View quote
William Hazlitt
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. View quote
William Hazlitt
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
An art book is a museum without walls. View quote
André Malraux
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. View quote
Edward Gibbon
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. View quote
Norman Mailer
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The covers of this book are too far apart. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
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