Humorous Quotations and Sayings About Reading And Books

Over the years, I’ve collected various quotes from books I’ve read that I found amusing.

Here are some of my favorite humorous sayings and quotes about reading and books.

 

I hope you enjoy reading them and they make you smile.

 

 

 

Favorite Quotations

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 can read a book twice as fast as anybody else.

First I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whichever end I like best.

— Gracie Allen

The covers of this book are too far apart.

— Ambrose Bierce

If we didn’t have libraries, many people thirsty for knowledge would dehydrate.

— Megan Jo Tetrick, age 12

No books are lost by loaning except those you particularly wanted to keep.

— Author Unknown

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.

— Kin Hubbard

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them.  The only books I have in my library are books that other folks have leant me.

— Anatole France

I was reading a book, “the history of glue”; I couldn’t put it down.

— Tim Vine

Life happened because I turned the pages.

— Alberto Manguel

There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

— Flannery O’Connor

I just got out of the hospital.  I was in a speed reading accident.  I hit a bookmark.

— Steven Wright

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

— Clarence Darrow

Never judge a book by its movie.

— J.W. Eagan

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

— Bertrand Russell

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

— Tom Clancy

A book store is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

— Jerry Seinfield

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

— Robert Chambers

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

— Raymond Chandler

I cringe when critics say I’m a master of the popular novel.  What’s an unpopular novel?

— Irwin Shaw

If you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

— John Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon

A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

— Henry Brooke

Seventy million books in America’s libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

— Tom Masson

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

— Bern Williams

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

— Robert Byrne

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

— Dorothy Parker

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

One always tends to over praise a long bookbecause one has got through it.

— E. M. Forster

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

— P.J. O’Rourke

I have only read one book in my life and that is White Fang.
It’s so frightfully good I’ve never bothered to read another.

— Nancy Mitford

The things I want to know are in books;
my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Groucho Marx

A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent.

— English Proverb

REPENT!

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

— Isaac Asimov

Be careful about reading health books.  You may die of a misprint.

— Mark Twain

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

— William Westmoreland

If you can read this, thank a teacher.

- Anonymous Teacher

After a youth misspent fishing and playing basketball,
I found reading.

- Nick Lyones

These quotations were collected by Kathleen Hawkins.

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