35 Best Books Quotes

There’s something about a good book quote that makes you feel like you’ve just had a deep, intellectual conversation without having to put on real pants.

Quotes about books have the magical power to sum up everything we love about reading in just a few words, and they can remind us why we’re proud to call ourselves bookworms (or book dragons, if you’re feeling particularly fierce).

So, grab your favourite novel, a cup of tea, and enjoy these 35 quotes that celebrate the beauty and wisdom.

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
“So many books, so little time.” — Frank Zappa
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” — Stephen King
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” — Haruki Murakami
“A good book is an event in my life.” — Stendhal
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” — C.S. Lewis
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” — Ernest Hemingway
“The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.” — Albert Einstein
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” — Stephen King
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Joseph Addison
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” — George R.R. Martin
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” — Jane Austen
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” — Stephen King
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” — Henry Ward Beecher
“Books are like mirrors. If a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.” — J.K. Rowling
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” — Anna Quindlen
“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.” — Mark Haddo
“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” — Neil Gaiman
“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.” — Isabel Allende
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book.” — Marcel Proust
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” — Walt Disney
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labelled ‘This could change your life.’” — Helen Exley
“I cannot live without books.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.” — Toni Morrison
“There is no Frigate like a Book to take us Lands away.” — Emily Dickinson
“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.” — Alan Bennett
“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” — Diane Duane
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss

Wizdom App: For When You Need Books to Be a Little More Bite-Sized

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