7,712 Quotes About Books

new performance ongoing where pages of a dictionary are ripped out and thrown on the stage floor, it’s a play on words with the title of the show being ‘Pun’.

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

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

It's stupid, really," I began again. "But it was this thing I read someplace, and it really got to me. It said that a dictionary is every book ever written and every book that will be written, just in a different order. And it seemed magical. You could own every book just by owning one book. I loved that. And I just had to have it,

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

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.