Oscar Wilde Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

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I hate to express political ideas directly in a book. I don't want my books to be seen as an expression of this or that political idea. At the same time I want to show a kind of rebellion and transgression, something further.

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Dreams, books, are each a world.

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Life is our dictionary.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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For the success, Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.

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We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

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Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

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Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

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Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

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I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.

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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.

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A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

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I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

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