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#1

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51650 likes

#2

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151771 likes

#3

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135650 likes

#4

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#5

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

37993 likes

#6

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29742 likes

#7

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

25528 likes

#8

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

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23107 likes

#9

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27885 likes

#10

“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.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

26915 likes

#11

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23591 likes

#12

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints

13741 likes

#13

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18873 likes

#14

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

16479 likes

#15

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

20703 likes

#16

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17576 likes

#17

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books

21082 likes

#18

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

13388 likes

#19

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45233 likes

#20

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27740 likes

#21

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

16634 likes

#22

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

tags: books, reading

8657 likes

#23

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

7344 likes

#24

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

9101 likes

#25

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

tags: books, christopher-paolini, eragon, good-reads

6288 likes

#26

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

tags: books, truth

6045 likes

#27

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

6984 likes

#28

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

5010 likes

#29

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

tags: books

5875 likes

#30

“This is me, Ana. All of me...and I'm all yours. What do I have to do to make you realize that? To make you see that I want you any way I can get you. That I love you.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker

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