75 Iconic Quotes From Classic Books You Read In High School

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have no power to feel for him.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”

— William Golding, amazon.com

“Help one another. It is the only way to survive.”

— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

— Harper Lee, amazon.com

“I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.”

— J. D. Salinger, genius.com

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, amazon.com

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”

— George Orwell, amazon.com

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been.”

— William Golding, amazon.com

“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty…you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”

— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

— George Orwell, amazon.com

“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”

— George Orwell, amazon.com

“She burned too bright for this world.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“I look at you and a sense of wonder takes me.”

— Homer, amazon.com

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

— George Orwell, amazon.com

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”

— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com

“What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com