129 Movie Quotes about Books (+ Sound Clips) - page 11

Updated: Dec 23, 2025

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.

101 I thought I might improve my mind, while I waited. -Boswell's Life of Johnson? Surely you didn't expect to wait that long? -I was just going to look at the pictures.

Barbara Stanwyck as Martha Ivers; Van Heflin as Sam Masterson in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

102 This reminds me of the time I attempted to reach the center of the Earth. I'd been reading my favorite author, Jules Verne. I spent weeks preparing that expedition. I didn't even get this far. Of course, I was only 12 at the time.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part III

103 Oh, come on, I like to juggle books. It's good, clean, harmless fun. See? Juggling. It's my hobby.

Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters

104 You read the whole encyclopedia? -Uh-huh. From cover to cover to cover...

Russi Taylor as Huey Duck in DuckTales: The Movie (1990)

105 Do you see anything? -Not yet. Uh... Oh! There's a beautiful girl! -Really? -Very beautiful, but no book. -No book.

James Stewart as Alfred Kralik in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

106 Well, you see, I was a different girl, then. I was really rather naive. All my knowledge came from books and I'd just finished a novel about a glamorous French actress from the Comedie Francaise. That's a theater in France.

Margaret Sullavan as Klara Novak in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

107 Oh. And I thought I was the inspiration for all those beautiful thoughts. Now I find he was just copying words out of a book. He probably didn't mean a single one of them.

Margaret Sullavan as Klara Novak in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

108 Book take you away?

Charles Laughton as Dr. Moreau in Island of Lost Souls (1932)

109 You should read the new book Mark Twain's writing now.

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

110 Even if those two pages were in there, the book still would've sucked.

Will Ferrell as Buddy The Elf in Elf (2003)

129 Movie Quotes about Books (+ Sound Clips) - page 11

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