Quotes about Books
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
— Seth Godin
I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
— Benjamin Disraeli
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
— Victor Hugo
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
— Theodore Roosevelt
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
— William Hazlitt
In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
— William Faulkner
One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old that they open their leaves more cordially that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.
— William Hazlitt
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
— George Washington Carver
I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
— Joel Osteen