Reade is a surname of English origin, and may refer to:
- Brian Reade, a British journalist
- Charles Reade, an English novelist
- Charles Reade (town planner)
- Duane Reade, an American drugstore
- Edwin Godwin Reade, an American politician
- Herbert Taylor Reade, a Canadian military surgeon
- Joseph Bancroft Reade, an English photographic pioneer
- Paul Reade, an English composer
- Shanaze Reade, a British professional BMX rider
- Walter Reade, an American theater founder
- William Winwood Reade, an English historian, explorer, and philosopher
Famous quotes containing the word reade:
“There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.”
—W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)
“We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.”
—W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)
“How so ere, my man
Shall reade a piece of virgil, tacitus,
livie, or some better booke to us,
Of which wee’ll speake our minds, amidst our meate;
And Ile professe no verses to repeate:”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)