Bookish Quotes

 

Vilma Reading On A Sofa

Tavik Frantisek Simon

If someone said to me,

how did you spend your life?

I'd have to say,

lying on the sofa reading.

~ Fran Lebowitz

Sunlight and Shadow

Winslow Homer

A day out-of-doors, 

someone I loved to talk with,

a good book and some simple food 

and music—that would be rest.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Rest

Deborah DeWit

In the case of good books, 

the point is not to see how many

of them you can get through, 

but rather how many can get through to you.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

The Garden Window

Daniel F. Gerhartz

We read books to find out who we are.

What other people, real or imaginary, 

do and think and feel. . . 

is an essential guide to our understanding 

of what we ourselves are and may become. 

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

A Woman Reading

Camille Corot

Her eye, her ear, were tuning forks, burning glasses,

which caught the minutest refraction

 or echo of a thought or feeling. . . . 

She heard a deeper vibration, 

a kind of composite echo, 

of all that the writer said, 

and did not say. 

~ Willa Cather

A Girl Reading

Jessie Willcox-Smith

Oh! For a book, and a cozy nook

And oh! For a quiet hour,

When care and strife and worry of life,

Have lost their dreaded power,

When you read with zest the very best

That mind to mind can give,

And quaff your joy without alloy,

And feel it is good to live.

~ Anonymous

Madame Claude Monet Reading

Pierre Auguste Renoir

God forbid that any book

should be banned. The

practice is as indefensible as

infanticide.

~ Rebecca West

Friday Nights

Deborah DeWit

The pleasure of all reading

is doubled when one lives

with another who shares the

same books.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Woman Reading

Yamashita Shintaro

Books are the carriers

of civilization. Without

books, history is silent,

literature dumb, science

crippled, thought and

speculation at a standstill.

They are engines of

change, windows on the

world, (as a poet said)

lighthouses erected in the

sea of time. They are

companions, teachers,

magicians, bankers of the

treasures of the mind.

Books are humanity

in print.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Orchard Window

Daniel Garber

Just the knowledge 

that a good book is awaiting one

at the end of a long day

makes that day happier.

~ Kathleen Norris

The New Novel

Winslow Homer