136 Movie Quotes about Books (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 15, 2026

Memorable quotes about books, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Suffering sassafras. He's sailing clean out of the book! Quick! Turn the page!

Gopher in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

2 In this world, perhaps. But in my world the books would be nothing but pictures.

Quote from Alice in Wonderland (1951)

3 As your spiritual leader, I implore you... to pay heed to this good book and what it has to say.

Quote from Blazing Saddles (1974)

4 Man, you come right out of a comic book.

Jim Kelly as Williams in Enter the Dragon (1973)

5 It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them.

Sean Connery as Henry Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

6 I know all about Christmas, and I've just the book for you. 'Christmas for Village Idiots'. It's all spelled out. See?

Quote from Shrek the Halls

7 You have a library? -Yes. Indeed. -With books.

Paige O'Hara as Belle; Jerry Orbach as Lumière in Beauty and the Beast (1991)

8 You know, they make it so you can't defeat Zurg unless you buy this book. It's extortion. That's what it is.

Wallace Shawn as Rex in Toy Story 2

9 Your new book is called The End of the World. Now, can you tell us when it's gonna be, or do we have to buy the book?

Bill Murray as Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters II

10 If that's a children's book, that mean's it's too advanced for the likes of you.

Doug E. Doug as Sanka Coffie in Cool Runnings