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Literature Quotes
Famous Quotations from Literature
| Quote | Author & Title |
|---|---|
| “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” | George Orwell, Animal Farm |
| “All for one, one for all, that is our motto.” | Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers |
| And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. / Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats/ Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats.” | Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” |
| “Appearances often are deceiving.” | Aesop, “The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” |
| “Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! / Long has it waved on high, / And many an eye has danced to see / That banner in the sky.” | Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Old Ironsides” |
| “ ‘Bah,’ said Scrooge. ‘Humbug!’ ” | Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol |
| Because I could not stop for Death, / He kindly stopped for me—” | Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” |
| Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!” | J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone |
| “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! / The Jaws that bite, the claws that catch!” | Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass |
| “But don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden.” | Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit |
| “ ‘But he hasn’t got anything on,’ a little child said.” | Hans Christian Andersen, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” |
| “But there is no joy in Mudville—Mighty Casey has struck out.” | Ernest Lawrence Thayer, “Casey at the Bat” |
| “By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, / By the shining Big-Sea-Water, / Stood the wigwam of Nokomis," | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha |
| “Call me Ishmael.” | Herman Melville, Moby-Dick |
| “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents.” | Louisa May Alcott, Little Women |
| “Curiouser and curiouser!” | Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland |
| “Do you believe in fairies? . . . If you believe, clap your hands!” | James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan |
| “Eliza made her desperate retreat across the river just in the dusk of twilight.” | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| “Fifteen men on a Dead Man’s Chest— / Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! / Drink and the devil had done for the rest— / Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” | Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island |
| “ ‘God bless us every one!’ said Tiny Tim, the last of all.” | Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol |
| “Good fences make good neighbors.” | Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” |
| “Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward, / All in the valley of death / Rode the six hundred.” | Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade” |
| “His own image . . . was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive.He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.” | Hans Christian Andersen, “The Ugly Duckling” |
| “I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.” | A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh |
| “I am Heathcliff.” | Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights |
| “I’m really a very good man; but I’m a very bad Wizard.” | Lyman Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| “ ‘I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.’” | Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol |
| “I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created.” | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein |
| “I meant what I said / And I said what I meant . . . / An elephant’s faithful / One hundred per cent!” | Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg |
| “I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel.” | Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea |
| “ ‘If it had grown up,’ she said to herself, ‘it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.’ ” | Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland |
| “I’ll resk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.” | Mark Twain, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” |
| “I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.” | Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind |
| In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” | Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl |
| “It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done.” | Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities |
| “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” | Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities |
| “Listen, my children, and you shall hear / Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, / On the Eighteenthof April, in Seventy-Five / Hardly a man is now alive / Who remembers that famous day and year.” | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Paul Revere’s Ride” |
| “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” | Aesop, “The Lion and the Mouse” |
| “Off with her head! Off with his head!” | Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland |
| “Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were—Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail,and Peter.” | Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit |
| “One if by land, two if by sea.” | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Paul Revere’s Ride” |
| “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, / One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” | J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring |
| “Poems are made by fools like me, / But only God can make a tree.” | Joyce Kilmer, “Trees” |
| “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.” | William Golding, The Lord of the Flies |
| “The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As intelligent Mr. Toad!” | Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows |
| “The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.” | Lyman Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| “This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks / . . . / Stand like Druids of old.” | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline |
| “To be, or not to be: that is the question.” | William Shakespeare, Hamlet |
| “Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush.” | Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” | Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” |
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