book quotes

'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 good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author' - g. k. chesterton

'outside of a dog a book is man's best friend. and inside of a dog it's too dark to read' - groucho marx

'a man who doesn't read books has no advantage over the man who can't read them' - mark twain

'good friends, good book and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life' - mark twain

'the worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it' - james bryce