Top 500 Book Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.”

— Toba Beta

302. “I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.”

— William Butler Yeats

303. “Without story books is like a person with no soul.”

— Stephen King

304. “The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth’s dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

305. “Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they’re not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.”

— Nick Hornby

306. “I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.”

— Erin Morgenstern

307. “Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.”

— Marianne Williamson

308. “You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

309. “If you’re looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?”

— George Carlin

310. “The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.”

— Immanuel Kant

311. “Life doesn’t come with an instruction book; that’s why we have fathers.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

312. “There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”

— Henry Ford

313. “We cannot give our children what we don’t have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.”

— Brené Brown

314. “Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul – what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?”

— Salman Rushdie

315. “I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.”

— James Joyce

316. “To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you’re not.”

— Jim Rohn

317. “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.”

— Henry Miller

318. “There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.”

— Francis Bacon

319. “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”

— Victor Hugo

320. “Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.”

— Robin S. Sharma

321. “The millionaire says to a thousand people, ‘I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth.’ Guess how many go out and get the book? Very few. Isn’t that incredible? Why wouldn’t everyone get the book?!”

— Jim Rohn

322. “Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”

— Louisa May Alcott

323. “Books ain’t no good. A guy needs somebody – to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody.”

— John Steinbeck

324. “Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.”

— Charles Dickens

325. “Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

326. “I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won’t read them soon. At least they are mine now.”

— Anaïs Nin

327. “In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

328. “And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.”

— Dylan Thomas

329. “Cut word lines – Cut music lines – Smash the control images – Smash the control machine – Burn the books – Kill the priests – Kill! Kill! Kill!”

— William S. Burroughs

330. “The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.”

— Napoleon

331. “My first popular book, ‘A Brief History of Time,’ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.”

— Stephen Hawking

332. “To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

333. “Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.”

— Rumi

334. “Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

335. “My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

336. “A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

— Carl Sagan

337. “Most critics don’t realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

338. “In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year’s change in intrinsic value.”

— Warren Buffett

339. “Let our lives be open books for all to study.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

340. “Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.”

— Brian Tracy

341. “It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company – for he did all the talking.”

— Mark Twain

342. “Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

343. “The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord’s work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.”

— Watchman Nee

344. “I’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

345. “That’s how it is with books, isn’t it: They’re not in a hurry. They’ll wait for you till you’re ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.”

— Charles Bukowski

346. “Women are books, and men the readers be...”

— Benjamin Franklin

347. “The society in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.”

— Margaret Atwood

348. “A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.”

— Mae West

349. “Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.”

— Isabel Allende

350. “Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?”

— C.G. Jung