The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.Oscar Wilde
Books Quotes
These 16 quotes on books come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.
Where they burn books, they will also burn people.Heinrich Heine
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.Jorge Luis Borges
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.Toni Morrison
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.Wole Soyinka
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.Walt Whitman
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, a Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou.Omar Khayyam
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.Haruki Murakami
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.Orhan Pamuk
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.Francis Bacon
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.Augustine of Hippo
A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a months study of books.Chinese proverb
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.Sylvia Plath
The purpose of literature is the criticism of life.Munshi Premchand
My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.Abraham Lincoln
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.Mark Twain