Some Fun Quotes

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." — C.S. Lewis

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live." — Gustave Flaubert

"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness." — Lemony Snicket

"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!" — John Waters

"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books." — Jasper Fforde (The Eyre Affair)

"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book." — Jane Smiley (13 Ways of Looking at the Novel)

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." — Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." — Groucho Marx

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." — Oscar Wilde

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond." — C.S. Lewis

"I am simply a "book drunkard." Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them." — L.M. Montgomery

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." — Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." — Groucho Marx

"There is no friend as loyal as a book." — Ernest Hemingway

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." — Ray Bradbury

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain." — Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though." — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

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

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." — Madeleine L'Engle

"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read." — Abraham Lincoln

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves." — Anna Quindlen

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the inheritance of generations and nations." — Henry David Thoreau