Top 67 Quotes About Books And Friendship
#1. Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice
Howell James
#2. They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.
Ann Brashares
#3. Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him.
People of Sparks
Jeanne DuPrau
#4. She never wanted an extravagant life-- only one filled with simple joys like children, family, friendship, good books, funny jokes, and a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream.
S.A. Huchton
#5. How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?
Rufi Thorpe
#6. But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.
Renata Bowers
#8. Paul was terribly personal. The books I like are the ones that make you feel like you are with a person who is being quite vulnerable, telling you all sorts of stuff that is personal, and that's the thing Paul did that makes me like him.
Donald Miller
#9. Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they've recommended to you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#10. Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
Charles De Lint
#11. Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.
Paullina Simons
#12. Books! Cleverness! There are more important things--friendship, bravery.
J.K. Rowling
#13. Some encounter me in person, know I am a writer, and don't trust the value of my words. Some encounter my books, know me later, and don't trust the value of my friendship. Both doubt themselves.
Robin Sacredfire
#14. May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true.
Abraham Cowley
#15. Friends might share clothes and chocolate, but they must share books. Just like you share the same stars, share the same books and you'll never be apart.
Toni Sorenson
#16. Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books
Stephen Fry
#17. There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,
or enemies,
or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
Carolyn Wells
#18. Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
John Wooden
#19. That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#20. Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?
William Wordsworth
#21. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
#22. Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.
Drea Damara
#23. That weekend my people brought home
a big eared gray scrawny kit.
He was so loud and annoying
that I did not like him one bit.
Melinda K. Trotter
#24. Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.
Jeanne DuPrau
#26. Harry - you're a great wizard, you know."
"I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him.
"Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!
J.K. Rowling
#29. London thou art a jewel of jewels, & jasper of jocunditie -- music, talk, friendship, city views, books, publishing, something central & inexplicable.
Virginia Woolf
#30. There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
Irving Stone
#31. She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped trying.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#32. I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.
Neale Donald Walsch
#33. I have loved many men, but only one in real life. All of the other men who have ever stolen my heart in more than friendship, are in books.
Alyse M. Gardner
#34. Me? Books and cleverness? There are more important things in life. Friendship, and bravery, and Harry, just be careful.
Hermoine Granger
#36. Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.
Walter Farley
#38. I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.
Zoe Marriott
#39. We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,
his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,
fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#40. Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.
Zack Love
#41. Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!
Carmela Dutra
#42. My books are friends that never fail me.
(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)
Thomas Carlyle
#43. Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read.
They mothered each other.
Louise Penny
#45. A friendship with the Lord will sustain you in difficult times.
Elizabeth George
#46. Books are our best friends we say, so can we call 'Paragraphs' as our 'Just Friends'?
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#47. That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after.
Megan Smith
#48. Be true to yourself.
Make each day your masterpiece.
Help others.
Drink deeply from good books.
Make friendship a fine art.
Build a shelter against a rainy day.
Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.
John Wooden
#49. Writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.
Robert Galbraith
#50. Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.
Shannon L. Alder
#51. Life is like a friendship, eventually it will end, by conflict or God's hand"
-Sons In The Clouds
Randy Mitchell
#52. If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.
Mortimer J. Adler
#53. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Love, truth, beauty, wisdom and consolation against death. Who had said that? someone else who loved books.
Cornelia Funke
#54. I hadn't been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
John Green
#55. Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen,
Delightful industry enjoy'd at home,
An Nature, in her cultivated trim
Dress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad -
Can he want occupation who has these?
William Cowper
#56. My father and he had cemented (the verb is excessive) one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether. They used to exchange books and periodicals; they would beat one another at chess, without saying a word.
Jorge Luis Borges
#57. Paola Calvetti takes readers on a delicious trip through Italy, books, letters and love, reminding us all of the joys of a completely compelling read."
Cathie Beck, author of Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship
Paola Calvetti
#58. Impossible," he said "I am in love with my food source.
James Howe
#59. Your best friend is the person who not only knows all the important stories and events in your life, but has lived through them with you. Your best friend isn't the person you call when you are in jail; mostly likely, she is sitting in the cell beside you.
Irene S. Levine
#60. There is no friend like a book; there is no beauty like a kind heart.
Debasish Mridha
#62. It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.
Alex Flinn
#63. We need books ... because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.
Steve Almond
#64. I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#65. Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.
Lemony Snicket
#66. Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
John Steinbeck
#67. The four of us got back into the car. In an instant, I distinctly heard a "soundless music". It was the melody of friendship, the sound of a perfectly tuned quartet who got together by chance, four hearts playing in harmony.
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