Top 24 Most Quoted Book Quotes

#1. Kept talking about how she's studying every holy book she can get her hands on, aiming to understand God's word. I quoted St. Augustine to her. 'If you understand it, it isn't God.' Gave her a cup of chamomile tea.

Jeanne DuPrau

Most Quoted Book Quotes #201224
#2. Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon.
As quoted in The Black Book of Hollywood Beauty Secrets ( Kym Douglas / Cindy Pearlman, 2006)

Susan Sarandon

Most Quoted Book Quotes #306751
#3. In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them. I can see that through them came Wagner and Mahler and Schoenberg and Berg. And then came Tracey Emin. And I can see it all as one downward path.

John Tavener

Most Quoted Book Quotes #420541
#4. he ducked his head around the corner he saw that he

Sarah Mayberry

Most Quoted Book Quotes #426236
#5. In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.

Fernando Pessoa

Most Quoted Book Quotes #530570
#6. Pat Robertson said the feminist movement was just a bunch of lesbians who wanted to leave their husbands and kill their children. I quoted him in my book. It's a fantastic statement.

John Shelby Spong

Most Quoted Book Quotes #616240
#7. A lot of aspiring writers quote the right people, but they do so like Mary Bennett in Pride and Prejudice. They quote Austen like Mary quoted her eighteenth-century bromides, and were Austen here to see them do it, she'd slap them right into her next book, and it wouldn't be pretty.

Douglas Wilson

Most Quoted Book Quotes #628105
#8. I have lived long enough to see real, significant changes made for the good...and I have been fortunate enough to have participated in some of them...One person can make a difference!
(Father Ted Hesburgh, C.S.C., quoted in our book, God's Icebreaker by Jill A. Boughton and Julie Walters)

Jill A. Boughton

Most Quoted Book Quotes #808144
#9. Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.

Witold Gombrowicz

Most Quoted Book Quotes #923513
#10. The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.

Carl Honore

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#11. A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)

Neil Gaiman

Most Quoted Book Quotes #1107481
#12. The Bible was the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then never as a basis for discussion but to decide the point at issue.

Leon Morris

Most Quoted Book Quotes #1121551
#13. When your soul and mine
have left our bodies and we are
burried alongside each other,
a Potter may one day mould
the dust of both of us
into the same clay.

Omar Khayyam

Most Quoted Book Quotes #1187335
#14. A visit always brings pleasure-- if not when it begins, then when it ends. (Quoted from another book)

Emmanuel Carrere

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#15. Like many of the people quoted on this dust-cover, I have not read Carl King's book. I am confident, however, that my review still applies: So, You're a Creative Genius is the best book available on modern cartography.

Heather Anne Campbell

Most Quoted Book Quotes #1432183
#16. Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

Oscar Wilde

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#17. Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

Herodotus

Most Quoted Book Quotes #1536508
#18. Peter Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is not discredited. It has been quoted on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Rush Limbaugh

Most Quoted Book Quotes #1539432
#19. St. Hierotheos, the great teacher quoted by Dionysius in his book on Divine Names: "As form giving form to all that is formless, in so far as It is the principle of form, the Divine Nature of the Christ is none the less formless in all that has form, since It transcends all form....

Titus Burckhardt

Most Quoted Book Quotes #1555250
#20. MY HUSBAND, STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS
QUOTED THIS RECENTLY IN WANGARATTA AT A BOOK SIGNING WHEN ASKED ADVICE FOR SUCCESS.........
1. Marry Louise.
2. Do what she tells you.
3. Keep her happy!

Louise Dando-Collins

Most Quoted Book Quotes #1638899
#21. Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens has been quoted as saying he thought the Book of Mormon was "chloroform in print". For

Park B. Romney

Most Quoted Book Quotes #1785695
#22. I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.

Kathryn Lasky

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#23. My father quoted Shakespeare to me often and when I lay a book down with splayed pages he told me better to be cruel to animals, children even, but never so cruelly treat a book.

Christine Wade

Most Quoted Book Quotes #1848941
#24. I intend that my last work shall be a cookbook composed of memories and desires.
Alexander Dumas, 1869, as quoted in Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days by James and Kay Salter

Alexandre Dumas

Most Quoted Book Quotes #1872331

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