Famous Reading Quotes
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
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.
There is a great deal to be said in favor of reading a novel backwards.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Reading musses up my mind.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
Nature's landscapes are like pages of a living book, inviting us to read and explore its stories.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.