Latest Quotes

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

— C.S Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”

— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Mother died today.”

— Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.”

— William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”

— James Joyce, Ulysses

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to k…”

— J.D Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions)

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

— George Orwell, 1984 (Signet Classics)

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.”

— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“All children, except one, grow up.”

— J.M Barrie, Peter Pan

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

“Call me Ishmael.”

— Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“A WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him.”

— Aesop, The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter

“Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.”

— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)

“IN MY YOUNGER and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Wars and a man I sing— an exile driven on by Fate, he was the first to flee the coast of Troy, destined to reach Lavinian shores and Italian soil, yet many blows he took on land and sea from the gods above— thanks to cruel Juno’s relentless rage— and many losses he bore in battle too, before he coul…”

— Virgil, The Aeneid (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)