Famous Quotations from Literature
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| “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” | show 🗑
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| show | Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
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| show | Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”
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| show | Aesop, “The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”
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| show | Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Old Ironsides”
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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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| show | J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
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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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| “ ‘But he hasn’t got anything on,’ a little child said.” | show 🗑
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| “But there is no joy in Mudville—Mighty Casey has struck out.” | show 🗑
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| show | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha
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| “Call me Ishmael.” | show 🗑
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| show | Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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| show | Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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| show | James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan
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| show | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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| “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!” | show 🗑
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| “ ‘God bless us every one!’ said Tiny Tim, the last of all.” | show 🗑
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| “Good fences make good neighbors.” | show 🗑
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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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| show | Lyman Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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| show | Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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| “I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created.” | show 🗑
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| show | Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg
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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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| “I’ll resk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.” | show 🗑
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| show | Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
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| In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” | show 🗑
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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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| “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” | show 🗑
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| show | Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland
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| show | Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
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| show | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Paul Revere’s Ride”
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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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| “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.” | show 🗑
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| “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!” | show 🗑
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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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| show | Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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| show | Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”
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