Mystery Books

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

When I was your age, television was called books. - William Goldman

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. - Neil Gaiman

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. - African Proverb

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. - Winston Churchill

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. - George Orwell

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. - Oscar Wilde

Leave some mystery to the world and they will remember you forever. - Amit Kalantri

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B.F. Skinner

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. - Charles Dickens

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. - Charles Caleb Colton

Better one line that will survive the author than a hundred books outlived. - Unknown

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. - Marie de Sevigne

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - John Wooden

Peppering your relationship with a dash of mystery can make it far more palatable. - Khang K. Nguyen

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. - Ernest Hemingway

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. - Robert Frost

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. - Voltaire

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. - Milla Jovovich

Wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate. - Margaret Atwood

The farther we've gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we've come to need Halloween. - Paula Guran

I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up. - Ron Santo

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

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. - Robertson Davies

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. - Raymond Chandler

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot