Famous Quotations from Literature
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| show | George Orwell, Animal Farm
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| show | Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
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| 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.” | show 🗑
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| “Appearances often are deceiving.” | show 🗑
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| “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.” | show 🗑
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| “ ‘Bah,’ said Scrooge. ‘Humbug!’ ” | show 🗑
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| Because I could not stop for Death, / He kindly stopped for me—” | show 🗑
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| Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!” | show 🗑
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| “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! / The Jaws that bite, the claws that catch!” | show 🗑
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| “But don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden.” | show 🗑
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| show | Hans Christian Andersen, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”
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| show | Ernest Lawrence Thayer, “Casey at the Bat”
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| “By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, / By the shining Big-Sea-Water, / Stood the wigwam of Nokomis," | show 🗑
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| show | Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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| “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents.” | show 🗑
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| “Curiouser and curiouser!” | show 🗑
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| “Do you believe in fairies? . . . If you believe, clap your hands!” | show 🗑
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| “Eliza made her desperate retreat across the river just in the dusk of twilight.” | show 🗑
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| show | Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
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| “ ‘God bless us every one!’ said Tiny Tim, the last of all.” | show 🗑
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| show | Robert Frost, “Mending Wall”
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| show | Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
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| show | Hans Christian Andersen, “The Ugly Duckling”
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| “I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.” | show 🗑
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| “I am Heathcliff.” | show 🗑
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| “I’m really a very good man; but I’m a very bad Wizard.” | show 🗑
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| “ ‘I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.’” | show 🗑
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| “I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created.” | show 🗑
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| “I meant what I said / And I said what I meant . . . / An elephant’s faithful / One hundred per cent!” | show 🗑
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| “I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel.” | show 🗑
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| “ ‘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.’ ” | show 🗑
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| show | Mark Twain, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
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| show | Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
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| show | Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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| “It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done.” | show 🗑
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| show | Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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| “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.” | show 🗑
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| show | Aesop, “The Lion and the Mouse”
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| show | Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland
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| “Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were—Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail,and Peter.” | show 🗑
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| “One if by land, two if by sea.” | show 🗑
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| “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, / One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” | show 🗑
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| “Poems are made by fools like me, / But only God can make a tree.” | show 🗑
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| show | William Golding, The Lord of the Flies
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| show | Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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| “The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.” | show 🗑
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| “This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks / . . . / Stand like Druids of old.” | show 🗑
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| “To be, or not to be: that is the question.” | show 🗑
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| “Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush.” | show 🗑
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| show | Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”
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