Quotes about books

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

Seneca the Younger

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

Jane Austen

That I am ready to throw all of my books and papers into the fire, and resolve never more to renounce the pleasure of life for the sake of reasoning and philosophy.

David Hume

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Bill Gates

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

William Faulkner

A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.

Will Durant

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

Ray Bradbury

History books are being re-written all the time.

Andy Warhol

Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

William Faulkner