-'-Book quotes-'-

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)


Never judge a book by its movie.
J. W. Eagan


Oh for a book and a shady nook...
John Wilson (1785 - 1854)


Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norias, Hands Full of Living, 1931


Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey


When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
Marie de Sevigne, O Magazine, December 2003


You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Paul Sweeney


The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain


God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
W.E. Channing