Famous Book Quotes

Seeking a new adventure? Read a book. Books let you venture into the unknown, armed with ordinary courage and an open mind. Books allow you to assume a new personality and explore your hidden qualities. Garbed in visions and temptations, discernment and pleasure, books are a discovery in themselves. Enjoy a virtual journey into unvisited shores with these famous book quotes.

• Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

• George Orwell, 1984
  People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.

• Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
  It is this day three hundred and forty-eight years six months and nineteen days that the good people of Paris were awakened by a grand pealing from all the bells in the three districts of the Cite, the Universite, and the Ville.

• George Eliot, Adam Bede
  No wonder man's religion has so much sorrow in it: no wonder he needs a Suffering God.

• Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?'

• Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
  Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book about the jungle called True Stories.

• A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
  Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.

• Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
  The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. Here on the Equator, in the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the battle for existence had reached a new climax of ferocity, and the victor was not yet in sight.

• J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

• Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
  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.

• Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
  If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment -- as well as the prison.

• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
  Two households, both alike in dignity,
  In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
  From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
  Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.