FAMOUS QUOTES FROM CLASSIC LITERATURE

“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

“To be, or not to be: that is the question.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“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

“Words, words, words.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green, Looking for Alaska

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT UNIVERSE

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” – Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I’d rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” – T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“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, To Kill a Mockingbird

“We are all fools in love.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“In every friend, there is a potential enemy; in every enemy, there is a potential friend.” – Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines