Best books Quotes

“Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.”

“I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five”

“The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.”

“The best books — like the best music or television or movies or comics or video games — can challenge us and force us to think or perceive aspects of life that we may prefer to avoid. In a sense, they threaten us.”

“The best books...The best books of men are soon exhausted--they are cisterns, and not springing fountains.You enjoy them very much at the first acquaintance,and you think you could hear them a hundred times over-but you could not- you soon find them wearisome.Very speedily a man eats too much honey:even children at length are cloyed with sweets.All human books grow stale after a time-but with the Word of God the desire to study it increases,while the more you know of it the less you think you know.The Book grows upon you: as you dive into its depthsyou have a fuller perception of the infinity which remainsto be explored. You are still sighing to enjoy more of thatwhich it is your bliss to taste.”

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”

“Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”

“Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau”

“I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.”