Reading Passages

Famous quotes containing the words reading and/or passages:

“The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)