“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― G.K. Chesterton
“Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain
“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King
“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
― J.K. Rowling
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― Augustine of Hippo
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
― Garrison Keillor
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies
“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
― Virginia Woolf
“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
― Christopher Hitchens
“If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.”
― Anne Fadiman
“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
― Cornelia Funke
bron: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/books?page=5
Geen opmerkingen:
Een reactie posten