"If people like to read their books,..." - Quote by Jane Austen
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.
More by Jane Austen
“A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.”
“Faultless in spite of all her faults.”
“It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.”
More on Reading
“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
“If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.”
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”