Book Quotes

Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.

It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.

Every day is a routine: you wake up, go to work or school, get tired, watch TV shows or read books, and then go to bed – and so on in a circle. Did you recognize yourself? It’s a shame because this is the wrong approach.

I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.

Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.