Seneca the Younger Quotes

We can't put up a movie that looks beautiful but doesn't have substance.

How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

I should infinitely prefer a book.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions...

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

An award does not change the quality of a book.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.

Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.