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Resta viator et lege! Stand still, traveller, and read!
Tolle, lege, tolle, lege. Pick up and read, pick up and read.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
If a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, hehad need have a present wit; and if he read little he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
Hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise markethares have no time to read.
You, for example, clever to a fault, The rough and ready man who write apace, Read somewhat seldomer, think perhaps even less.
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
What people read most of the time should be as worth mentioning as what they read almost none of the time.
You maydream freely whenyou listen tomusic as well as when you look at painting.When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
His eyesight has always been weak, a sort of film over the eyes. A doctor advised him not to read, but he said, 'Then I should be ignorant', and he refused an operation because there was a thousandth chance he might go blind and so remain ignorant.
Ina real sense, peoplewhohavereadgood literaturehave lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
He writes as fast as they can read, and he does not write himself down His worst is better than any other person's best His works (taken together) are almost like a new edition of human nature. This is indeed to be an author!
Ihadthepaperbut Ididnot read it becauseIdidnot want to read about the war. I was going to forget the war. I had made a separate peace.
I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but atrue one, that Iknewalmost asmuchateighteenas I do now.
Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
Well,Jim, I haven't read any of your books but I'll have to someday because they must be good considering how well they sell.
I read the first 2 pages of the usual sloppy English and [Stuart Gilbert] read me a lyrical bit about nudism in the wood and the end which is a piece of propaganda in favour of something which, outside of D. H. L.'s country at any rates, makes all the propaganda for itself.
Ich glaube, mann sollte u« berhaupt nur solche Bu« cher lesen, die einen beiÞen und stechen. I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.One does not love breathing.
The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read.
Quis leget haec? Who'll read that sort of thing?
The trouble with me is, I always have to read that stuff by myself. If an actor reads it out, I hardly listen. I keep worrying about whether he's going to do something phoney every minute.
He read partly for information, partly for comparison, partly for insight, partly for the sheer joy of felicitous statement.He delighted particularly inquotationswhich distilled the essence of an argument.
Loving in truth, and vain in verse my love to show, That she (dear she) mighttake some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know; Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain.
I cannot remember things I once read A few friends, but theyare in cities. Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup Looking down for miles Through high still air.
You should only read what istruly good or what isfrankly bad.
A classicsomething that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Lady Peabury was in the morning room reading a novel; 892 early training gave a guilty spice to this recreation, for she had been brought up to believe that to read a novel before luncheon was one of the gravest sins it was possible for a gentlewoman to commit.
But here I am in Kent and Christendom, Among the Muses, where I read and rhyme.
When you are old and greyand full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly how Love fled And paced among the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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