The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick

Topics: Knowledge Quotes, Passion Quotes, Reading Quotes

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction;...

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction;...

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion...

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion...

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts,...

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts,...

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked...

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked...

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes...

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes...

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay...

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay...

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say...

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say...

I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book

I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage...

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage...

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new...

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new...

Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea," said Japhy. "Remember that book I told...

Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea,

Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live...

Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live...

A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study...

A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study...

Books are embalmed minds

Books are embalmed minds

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether...

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether...

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands...

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands...

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we...

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we...

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to...

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to...