Quotes
Quotes about Reading
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Stuff the head
With all such reading as was never read:
For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it,
And write about it, goddess, and about it.
Reading what they never wrote,
Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work,
And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.
You write with ease to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading.
Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far,
Was pinned with a single star.
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
A reading-machine, always wound up and going,
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Themistocles said that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can be shown only by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.
He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.
Spreading himself like a green bay-tree.
No one can judge a piece of music merely by hearing it; no one can judge a novel just by reading it
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
The informed part of the reading public should be sufficient to bring an author back into print, or, if he is still in print, keep him there
There are two good reasons for writing much, if one can. The first is the need to earn; the second is the fear of an untimely death, which will prevent the half-formed books in one's mind from being realized. We know not the day nor the hour. I may be killed in a train accident when taking this present book to my publisher in London. You can see whether or not this happened by reading the blurb on the dust jacket
One should never say that one had no time for reading
Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else - and usually it's reading his own handwriting.
Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else - and usually it's reading his own handwriting.
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
