Jane AustenSourced
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
Said by Caroline Bingley, who is pretending to read to impress Mr Darcy. Austen is joking.
Source: Pride and Prejudice, ch. 11 (1813)
Checked quotes about books
4 quotes with a known source.
Francis BaconSourced
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Source: Essays, "Of Studies" (1625)
Thomas JeffersonSourced
I cannot live without books.
Source: Letter to John Adams (10 June 1815)
Groucho MarxAttributed
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Source: Widely attributed
Famous, but not theirs
Quotes about books that are usually credited to the wrong person.
CiceroMisquoted
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
The real words: In a letter to Varro (Ad Familiares IX.4) he wrote: "If you have a garden in your library, nothing will be lacking." One garden, inside the library.
G. K. ChestertonMisquoted
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
The real words: Neil Gaiman's paraphrase (in Coraline, 2002) of Chesterton's essay "The Red Angel" in Tremendous Trifles (1909).