Bibliomania continued

To follow up my earlier post titled Bibliomania, I wanted to include some quotes from fellow bibliomaniacs throughout the centuries. Enjoy!

Here are some famous quotes about books:


“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
—Francis Bacon



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


“I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns of the set, I go in the other room and read a book.”
—Groucho Marx

“It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.”
—Victor Hugo

“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.”
—Joseph Addison



“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”
—Abraham Lincoln


“All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.”
—Henry Miller

“It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.”
—Voltaire

“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
—W. H. Auden

“Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.”
—Lord Chesterfield


"I cannot live without books"
- Thomas Jefferson

“A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
—G. K. Chesterton

“Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.”
—William Faulkner