Literature Quotes

A collection of the most interesting, famous, witty and inspirational quotes from English literature. Send your quotes through to @Lit_Quotes.

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"@Lit_Quotes: 'I bleed sir. But do not die.' ~ Iago (Othello)"

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'Mastery of language affords remarkable power.' ~ Frantz Fanon

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'We saw one another through the fog, the suffocating repetition of life.' ~ Agnes Magnusdottir / Burial Rites.

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'My heart is disturbed.' ~ Saigyo

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'…in the darkness of that curious little world of hers. Let her be spared from anguished dreams, I found myself hoping.' ~ Norwegian Wood

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'The moral sense in mortals is the duty. We have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.' ~ Lolita

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'And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.' ~ Charlie, Perks of Being a Wallflower

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'Goddamn money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.' ~ Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye

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'When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination.' ~ V. Nabakov

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'There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt.' ~ William S. Burroughs

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'Our duty is to love what is beautiful -- not to accept all the social conventions and the infamies they impose on us.' ~ Madame Bovary

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'Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.' ~ Holden Caulfield

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'There is nothing alive more agonized than man of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.' ~ Zeus (Iliad)

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'There are some kind of men who are so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.' ~ Miss Maudie (TKAM)

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'Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.' ~ George Orwell (Animal Farm)

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'I bleed sir. But do not die.' ~ Iago (Othello)

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'See, how she leans her cheek, upon that hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!' ~ William Shakespeare