• About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
  • Fact Checking Policy
Newsum
  • Home
  • News
  • Technology
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Review
  • Inspiring
  • Humor
  • Video
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Technology
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Review
  • Inspiring
  • Humor
  • Video
No Result
View All Result
Newsum
No Result
View All Result

Inspiring Quotes on Books on World Book Day!

Sonal by Sonal
May 1, 2019
in World
0
Inspiring Quotes on Books on World Book Day!

Image Source: Halsbury Travel

9
SHARES
0
VIEWS
Share on WhatsappShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedIn

23rd April is observed as World Book Day across the world. And few things in the world can compare to the joy of reading a book.

On this special day, we have compiled for you a list of quotes that describe the pleasures of book and of reading.

“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

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

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

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

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

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

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

“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

“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

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

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“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

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
― Horace Mann

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L’Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
― Rene Descartes

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert

“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”
― Walt Disney

“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.”
― Will Rogers

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
― Joseph Addison

“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
― Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

“The books – the generous friends who met me without suspicion – the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
― Wilkie Collins, Armadale

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”
― Ezra Pound

“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
― George Gissing

“When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”
― Jean Fritz

“I guess there are never enough books.”
― John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

“I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that’s way more interesting that yours will ever be.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Bloom

What other quotes on books and reading have inspired you? Do let us know!

0
Tags: booksReadingWorld Book Day

Get real time update about this post categories directly on your device, subscribe now.

Unsubscribe
Previous Post

23rd April is World English Language Day

Next Post

Girl Without Hands Wins National Handwriting Competition

Next Post
Girl Without Hands Wins National Handwriting Competition

Girl Without Hands Wins National Handwriting Competition

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Browse by Category

  • Apps
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Fashion
  • Food
  • Gadget
  • Gaming
  • Health
  • Humor
  • Inspiring
  • Lifestyle
  • Mobile
  • Movie
  • Music
  • News
  • Others
  • Politics
  • Review
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Startup
  • Technology
  • Travel
  • Video
  • World
Newsum is the future of news

#FutureOfNews

Follow & Like Us

Download Newsum App

Recent News

10 Ways AI is Combating Climate Change Today

10 Ways AI is Combating Climate Change Today

February 5, 2025
Thermogalvanic Cooling System In Action

Revolutionizing Refrigeration: The Rise of Thermogalvanic Cooling Technology

February 5, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
  • Fact Checking Policy

© 2021 SCVPL - Future of News Newsum.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist

No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Technology
  • Movie
  • Lifestyle
  • Review
  • Inspiring

© 2021 SCVPL - Future of News Newsum.

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.
-
00:00
00:00

Queue

Update Required Flash plugin
-
00:00
00:00
Go to mobile version