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"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."
— Jasper Fforde (The Eyre Affair)

tags: books, reading
197 people liked it

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
2,993 people liked it

"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size. "
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

48 people liked it

"For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

tags: books, literature
14 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,461 people liked it

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

311 people liked it

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
— Jane Austen

360 people liked it

"Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep."
— Virginia Woolf (The Waves)

tags: aging, friends, life
5 people liked it

"Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature."
— Jasper Fforde

tags: humor, peter, rabbit
26 people liked it

"Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. "
— Jasper Fforde (Lost in a Good Book)

tags: humor, insults
40 people liked it

"I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much."
— P.G. Wodehouse (The Inimitable Jeeves)

tags: humor
13 people liked it

"Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!"
— P.G. Wodehouse (The Inimitable Jeeves)

tags: humor
11 people liked it

"Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous."
— P.G. Wodehouse (Very Good, Jeeves!)

tags: hair, humor, redheads
91 people liked it

"Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay."
— Janet Fitch (White Oleander)

tags: hard, poetry
46 people liked it

"Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone."
— Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan)

tags: alone
8 people liked it

"I am clever enough to know that I am clever."
— Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan)

tags: clever
4 people liked it

"Life stand still here."
— Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)

tags: life
10 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,553 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,029 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,267 people liked it

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television
2,807 people liked it

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
1,659 people liked it

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
— Gustave Flaubert

tags: books, inspirational, life, reading
924 people liked it

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe
407 people liked it

"A house without books is like a room without windows."
— Horace Mann

tags: books, house, windows
539 people liked it

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
— Walt Disney Company

tags: books
488 people liked it

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: books, reading
2,051 people liked it

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library
3,110 people liked it

"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)

tags: books, humor, reading
303 people liked it

"I was with book, as a woman is with child."
— C. S. Lewis (Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold)

tags: books
48 people liked it

"[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers."
— Judy Blume

tags: books, censorship
74 people liked it

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading
1,294 people liked it

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: reading
550 people liked it

"No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: reading
326 people liked it

"When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: bookworms, heavenly, judgment, reading, rewards
141 people liked it

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: reading, writing
141 people liked it

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

2,447 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,002 people liked it

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
— Charlotte Brontë

tags: freedom, inspirational, literature
163 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,795 people liked it

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

166 people liked it

"To die will be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

105 people liked it

"Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket."
— Victor Hugo (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)

49 people liked it

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
— Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry
585 people liked it

"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."
— Victor Hugo

70 people liked it

"Fashions have done more harm than revolutions."
— Victor Hugo

23 people liked it

"Snoring keeps the monsters away."
— Judy Blume (Fudge-a-Mania)

tags: humor, snoring
51 people liked it

"Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one."
— Jasper Fforde (First Among Sequels)

tags: love
50 people liked it

"Whither thou goest..."
— Neil Gaiman (Stardust)

tags: love
13 people liked it

"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"
— James Joyce (The Dead)

tags: love
34 people liked it

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