Well Read Man Quotes

#1. A book is a loaded gun in the house next door ... Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

Ray Bradbury

#2. Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me?

Ray Bradbury

#4. Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

J.C. Ryle

#5. Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

Barbara Pym

#6. Well, who doesn't love a good mpreg?"
"A what?"
"Sim gets man-pregnant? Gives birth to twins during a tornado?"
"I'll pretend I never heard that."
"Here, I'll read you the wedding one -"
"NO.

J.C. Lillis

#7. Unfortunately, this is so obviously a convention of bad fiction that it might as well read, 'Looking in the mirror, Joe saw a tall, brown-haired man, trapped in a poorly written novel.

Howard Mittelmark

#8. One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.

Ramakrishna

#9. Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It's back on the shelves.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#10. Well, in that case, no. I'm not your father. But if you go with another definition, meaning 'a man who wants to be in your life and help raise you,' then yes. I am.

Jenna Evans Welch

#11. Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

William Hazlitt

#12. No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.

Fisher Ames

#13. Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may well admire his marvelous works of art in museums she herself will rarely create, only copy.

Esther Vilar

#14. Well, that's Philosophy I've read,
And Law and Medicine, and I fear
Theology, too, from A to Z;
Hard studies all, that have cost me dear.
And so I sit, poor silly man
No wiser now than when I began.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#15. Well, it would have to be "The Man Who Was Thursday." It's a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in politics.

Terry Pratchett

#16. A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.

Judith Butler

#17. For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

Ben Jonson

#18. I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

Lalla Ward

#19. To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

William Shakespeare

#20. When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man, if I can't read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.' And this bothered me a great deal.

Nick Tosches

#21. My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian
the man in charge of the University's entire collection
is a figurehead, well-to-do and poorly read, with whom I have only perfunctory contact.

Martha Cooley

#22. I much applaud thy judgement; thou art well-read in a fellow.
And 'tis the deepest art to study man.

Thomas Middleton

#23. Readers will easily recognize the cover of a book they've read, but in a cafe that man over there, is that ... is that ... well, it's hard to tell - doesn't he have long hair? - oh, he's gone.

Yann Martel

#24. I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

George Eliot

#25. Am I supposed to be a man? Am I supposed to say, 'It's okay, I don't mind, I don't mind'? Well, I mind! I mind big time! And you know what the worst part is? I never learned to read!

Wayne Campbell

#26. Battle was a masculine art. A woman wanting to come to the battlefield was like ... well, like a man wanting to read. Unnatural.

Brandon Sanderson

#27. The good man never wrote or read a sermon, but talked to his people as one who would meet what was in them with what was in him.

George MacDonald

#28. Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people.

Zack Snyder

#29. I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world did that man or that woman sit down at a typewriter, a computer or a pen and an ink well, and seemingly have nothing come between their heart and that pen.

Kevin Spacey