126 Movie Quotes about Books (Sound Clips) - page 7

Last updated on: August 19, 2025

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

61 I'm not afraid. My mind will protect me. I'm a man of science, a man of learning, a man who knows how to buy the finest books.

Matthew Perry in Almost Heroes (1998)

62 Well, are you sure you're doing the right thing? You know what happens to girls like you when they read books like mine. They begin to think. That's bad.

James Stewart as Macaulay Connor in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

63 In the 25-cent book business, you can sell anything, even the old classics, no matter how dreary they are.

Quote from The Seven Year Itch (1952)

64 And it wasn't that she was just selling books. It was that she was helping people become whoever it was they were going to turn out to be.

Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail

65 What's wrong about a book? -I'll not be remembered for a pack of lies.

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

66 He'd been teaching the same rubbish for 30 years and I don't suppose he'd read a new book for 20 of those.

Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein in The Curse of Frankenstein

67 When I was a kid, I read a book about the world coming to an end. I remember being so scared, I didn't dare go to sleep. And in the morning, the sun came out, and everything looked so wonderful, I forgot the story. Life was beautiful all over again.

Quote from When Worlds Collide (1951)

68 So he says, 'How would you like to be rich?' So I said, 'Sure.' So he lays this book on me.

Biff Tannen in Back to the Future Part II

69 You damn fool! Never, never leave this book laying around. Don't you have a safe? No, you don't have a safe. Get a safe. Keep it locked up. And until then, keep it on you like this.