Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

It is my belief that books are living things.

But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness.

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.

I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.