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Welcome to our curated collection of literary quotes that encapsulate the essence of wisdom, emotion, and imagination. These handpicked quotes from a variety of celebrated books are perfect for sharing on your social networks or merely for personal reflection. Delve into the richness of language and the profundity of thought, where we blend the beauty of literature with the insight of human experience. May these quotes inspire you, spark discussions, and bring a deeper appreciation for the written word!

Quotes from "To Kill a Mockingbird"

• "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view." – Harper Lee
• "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." – Harper Lee
• "People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." – Harper Lee
• "Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." – Harper Lee
• "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." – Harper Lee
• "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy." – Harper Lee
• "Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them." – Harper Lee
• "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win." – Harper Lee
• "It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived." – Harper Lee
• "People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." – Harper Lee
• "You just hold your head high and keep those fists down." – Harper Lee
• "People in their right minds never take pride in their talents." – Harper Lee

Quotes from "Pride and Prejudice"

• "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." – Jane Austen
• "Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously." – Jane Austen
• "Till this moment I never knew myself." – Jane Austen
• "You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." – Jane Austen
• "My good opinion once lost, is lost forever." – Jane Austen
• "There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others." – Jane Austen
• "We are all fools in love." – Jane Austen
• "Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion." – Jane Austen
• "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!" – Jane Austen
• "The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance." – Jane Austen
• "Obstinate, headstrong girl!" – Jane Austen
• "Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy." – Jane Austen

Quotes from "1984"

• "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." – George Orwell
• "If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself." – George Orwell
• "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." – George Orwell
• "In the face of pain there are no heroes." – George Orwell
• "Big Brother is Watching You." – George Orwell
• "We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them." – George Orwell
• "Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood." – George Orwell
• "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already." – George Orwell
• "Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." – George Orwell
• "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." – George Orwell
• "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." – George Orwell
• "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." – George Orwell

Quotes from "The Great Gatsby"

• "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "It takes two to make an accident." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "When you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away." – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes from "Brave New World"

• "Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything." – Aldous Huxley
• "But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." – Aldous Huxley
• "The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray." – Aldous Huxley
• "Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensation for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability." – Aldous Huxley
• "One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them." – Aldous Huxley
• "Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma." – Aldous Huxley
• "The more stitches, the less riches." – Aldous Huxley
• "When the individual feels, the community reels." – Aldous Huxley
• "Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." – Aldous Huxley
• "You can't consume much if you sit still and read books." – Aldous Huxley
• "No social stability without individual stability." – Aldous Huxley
• "Ending is better than mending." – Aldous Huxley

Quotes from "Moby-Dick"

• "Call me Ishmael." – Herman Melville
• "Ignorance is the parent of fear." – Herman Melville
• "I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing." – Herman Melville
• "Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian." – Herman Melville
• "I try all things, I achieve what I can." – Herman Melville
• "There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness." – Herman Melville
• "To the last I grapple with thee; From hell’s heart I stab at thee; For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee." – Herman Melville
• "A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities." – Herman Melville
• "I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing." – Herman Melville
• "I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote." – Herman Melville
• "Bartleby, the Scrivener: I would prefer not to." – Herman Melville
• "It is not down in any map; true places never are." – Herman Melville

Quotes from "Frankenstein"

• "Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful." – Mary Shelley
• "I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other." – Mary Shelley
• "Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change." – Mary Shelley
• "If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!" – Mary Shelley
• "There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand." – Mary Shelley
• "Live, and be happy, and make others so." – Mary Shelley
• "I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel..." – Mary Shelley
• "With how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries." – Mary Shelley
• "I am malicious because I am miserable." – Mary Shelley
• "I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion." – Mary Shelley
• "I desired love and fellowship, and I was spurned." – Mary Shelley
• "Of what a strange nature is knowledge!" – Mary Shelley

Quotes from "Jane Eyre"

• "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." – Charlotte Brontë
• "Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings?" – Charlotte Brontë
• "I would always rather be happy than dignified." – Charlotte Brontë
• "I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself." – Charlotte Brontë
• "Reader, I married him." – Charlotte Brontë
• "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs." – Charlotte Brontë
• "I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do." – Charlotte Brontë
• "It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it." – Charlotte Brontë
• "Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear." – Charlotte Brontë
• "I would always rather be happy than dignified." – Charlotte Brontë
• "Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones." – Charlotte Brontë
• "The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it." – Charlotte Brontë

Quotes from "The Catcher in the Rye"

• "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours." – J.D. Salinger
• "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." – J.D. Salinger
• "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." – J.D. Salinger
• "People always clap for the wrong reasons." – J.D. Salinger
• "I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot." – J.D. Salinger
• "Certain things should stay the way they are." – J.D. Salinger
• "People never notice anything." – J.D. Salinger
• "I am always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met." – J.D. Salinger
• "Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior." – J.D. Salinger
• "It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to." – J.D. Salinger
• "You never know where the hell you are." – J.D. Salinger
• "People always think something's all true." – J.D. Salinger

Quotes from "Wuthering Heights"

• "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." – Emily Brontë
• "He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." – Emily Brontë
• "I cannot live without my soul." – Emily Brontë
• "I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free." – Emily Brontë
• "He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being. – Emily Brontë
• "Nelly, I am Heathcliff." – Emily Brontë
• "I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." – Emily Brontë
• "If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it." – Emily Brontë
• "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." – Emily Brontë
• "I am Heathcliff." – Emily Brontë
• "If I could I love you less I might be able to talk about it more." – Emily Brontë
• "He's always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being." – Emily Brontë

Final words

Books have the power to transport us to different worlds, introduce us to unforgettable characters, and impart timeless wisdom. These selected quotes from legendary works of literature illustrate a spectrum of human emotions and experiences with eloquent precision. Whether examining complex social themes or the intricacies of personal growth, these quotes continue to resonate with readers across generations. We hope these words have stirred something within you, prompting you to explore these literary treasures more deeply. Let us appreciate the beauty and complexity of language, and enrich our lives with the wisdom embedded in these timeless narratives. Keep the conversation going, share your favorite quotes, and let's celebrate the profound impact of literature together!