Book Quotes

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.