Quotable Reading Quotes

Reading quotes can be a great way to motivate yourself to read more, or to give you some words of wisdom to remember when reading.

“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” — Frederick Douglass

“The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I [haven’t] read.” — Abraham Lincoln

“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away. And in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” — Roald Dahl

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” — Emilie Buchwald

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx

“I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.” — Coolio

“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” — Austin Phelps

“You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be — I had a mother who read to me.” — Strickland Gillilan

“The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t.” — Mark Twain

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” — Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!” — A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943