Top 500 Book Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “The world is a better place when you smile.”

— Nicholas Sparks

352. “We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.”

— John Keats

353. “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

354. “Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That’s what enlightenment is all about.”

— Robin S. Sharma

355. “I’m always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I’ll always be in supply.”

— Ernest Hemingway

356. “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

357. “I’ve read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I’ve made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.”

— Donald Trump

358. “A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls.”

— Hermann Hesse

359. “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

360. “I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.”

— Franz Kafka

361. “Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.”

— Nelson Mandela

362. “To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.”

— John Steinbeck

363. “BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You’re not a human being until you’re in my phone book.”

— Bill Hicks

364. “I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”

— Neil Gaiman

365. “In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Benjamin Franklin

367. “Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn’t mean anything to me.”

— Henry Rollins

368. “In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.”

— Ray Bradbury

369. “Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.”

— Swami Vivekananda

370. “Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.”

— C.G. Jung

371. “Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.”

— Stephen King

372. “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?”

— Christopher Paolini

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

374. “Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.”

— Carl Sagan

375. “Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

376. “May books and nature be their early joy!”

— William Wordsworth

377. “My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I’m quite prone to such bouts of deplorability – take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.”

— Brandon Sanderson

378. “She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she’d checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.”

— Nicholas Sparks

379. “I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”

— C. S. Lewis

380. “He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

381. “There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.”

— Ernest Hemingway

382. “What better book can there be than the book of humanity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

383. “The Book of Mormon is to be feasted upon, not nibbled.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

384. “We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.”

— Quintilian

385. “Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.”

— C. S. Lewis

386. “The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.”

— Terry Pratchett

387. “I love reading – inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you would offer me a million dollars for my iPod I wouldn’t give it to you, because I have some great things on it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

388. “Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.”

— Henry David Thoreau

389. “Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

390. “The abundance of books is distraction.”

— Seneca the Younger

391. “I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.”

— Virginia Woolf

392. “Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling.”

— Tony DeLiso

393. “It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn’t want to move around very much.”

— Brandon Sanderson

394. “The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list’ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.”

— Alexander Pope

395. “I grew up kissing books and bread.”

— Salman Rushdie

396. “Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.”

— Ray Bradbury

397. “In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology.”

— Barack Obama

398. “Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.”

— Virginia Woolf

399. “The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in which they stand in the book called the Bible, are theological orations conformable to the original system of theology.”

— Thomas Paine

400. “You chose books, I chose looks. Now see the difference?”

— Roald Dahl