Don’t you think that it’s very gratifying how a simple and concise quote can exactly convey an idea that you didn’t know how to express? It’s unbelievable that this certain short group of words can reveal all of those million thoughts running through our brains but can’t seem to get out of the tip of our tongue.
Quotes can inspire and make us laugh. It can produce such strong emotions that it has the power to rapidly switch to a different mental state. Today, I have collected the top 60 quotes from classical books with great impact.
“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.” –E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned! – Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“The greatest ideas are the simplest.” – William Golding, Lord of the Flies
“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.” – William Golding, Lord of the Flies
He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were. – William Golding, Lord of the Flies
The thing is- fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream. – William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. – Jane Austen, Emma
Beware; for I am fearles, and therefore powerful – Mary Shelly, Frankenstein
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. – William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. – Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing. – Herman Melville, Moby Dick
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen. – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! – Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. – Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate. – William Golding, Lord of the Flies
They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels. – Kate Chopin, The Awakening
“And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.” – Virginia Woolf, To the lighthouse
“It was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.” -Albert Camus, The Stranger
“I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.” –Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons
“Ask no questions and you’ll be told no lies.” –Charles Dickens, Great expectations
“Both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love.” – Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkein
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” – Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Dr. Seuss
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” – The Tempest, William Shakespeare
“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.” – When We Were Very Young, A.A. Milne
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” – Jane Austen, Pride, and Prejudice
“And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.” – William Goldman, The Princess Bride
“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.” –The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkein
“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” – Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” – John Steinbeck, Of Mice And Men
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” – Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.” – Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” – Bram Stroker, Dracula
“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.” – H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” – Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.” – Roald Dahl, The Witches
“Why can’t people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody, yet everybody has the wrong thing.” – Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” – Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill?” – John Steinbeck, East of Eden