Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings

Research Database of Quotes

It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. Paper-Research now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

Browse Keywords

(Click a letter to view the keywords)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q
R
S T U V W X Y Z

reader

«Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.»
«A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.»
«Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.»
«A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.»
«A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three»
«Amuse the reader at the same time that you instruct him»
Author: Horace (Poet) | Keywords: amuse, instruct, reader
«Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author»
«A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.»
«Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: ideally, reader
«'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.»

Pages: 1 2 3 4 Next »