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Literature Quotes
43 FAMOUS QUOTES · LITERATURE
Literature Quotes
Read 43 famous literature quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?”
Christopher Marlowe
“Hell is other people.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”
Charles Dickens
"How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."Ernest Hemingway
“And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine.”
Marcel Proust
“Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!”
Lewis Carroll
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
Jane Austen
“The quality of mercy is not strained; it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.”William Shakespeare
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
George Orwell
“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”
Charles Dickens
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
Charlotte Brontë
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
Virginia Woolf
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
Ezra Pound
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Leo Tolstoy
"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
James Joyce