Oscar Wilde Quotes

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

If you enjoy reading something, read it.

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.

I enjoy reading books.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

Books are a languid pleasure.

I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I finished the fifteenth, I discovered I was three pages from the next chapter. Might as well end with a clean break. After I was done, I sighed and leaned back, feeling decadent and spent. Pure bliss. Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.

Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.