“You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot further with a smile and a gun. A smile, a gun, and a Brute get you the key to the city. —Al “Scarface” Capone, Interview, 1930”
― Larry Correia, quote from Hard Magic
“When I get those types, the men who just need to control everything, to tell everybody else what to do, I stick it in and break it off. I’m fighting for freedom.”
― Larry Correia, quote from Hard Magic
“She had not liked the German at first, but she decided that that was just because he had shot her to death.”
― Larry Correia, quote from Hard Magic
“It was a rare man you could trust with either a Thompson or a general ledger.”
― Larry Correia, quote from Hard Magic
“Everybody thought they were in the right. The evilest bastards he had ever met had still thought of themselves as the good guys.”
― Larry Correia, quote from Hard Magic
“She was the most beautiful creature on Earth - her hair said so in that language only hair can speak.”
― Fábio Moon, quote from Daytripper
“I'm a motherfucking lothario of humans and robots alike.”
― Ais, quote from Fade
“As long as nothing happens anything is possible...”
― Graham Greene, quote from Our Man in Havana
“Overly literal translations, far from being faithful, actually distort meaning by obscuring sense.”
― Liu Cixin, quote from The Three-Body Problem
“Getting a problem analyzed is two-thirds of solving it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from Have Space Suit—Will Travel
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.
Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.