Famous Literary Quotes

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

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

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. – J.K. Rowling

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. – John Green

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. – Lewis Carroll

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Jr.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas A. Edison

Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. – William Shakespeare

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou

Famous Literary Quotes part 2

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Oscar Wilde

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. – Charlotte Brontë

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

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. – Charles Dickens

But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, and I want real danger, and I want freedom, and I want goodness. I want sin. – Aldous Huxley

After all, tomorrow is another day. – Margaret Mitchell

I would always rather be happy than dignified. – Charlotte Brontë

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. – J.K. Rowling

One can never have enough socks. – J.R.R. Tolkien

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. – J.K. Rowling

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

I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. – Herbert Bayard Swope

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. – André Gide

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. – George Orwell

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first draft of anything is shit. – Ernest Hemingway

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. – Dr. Seuss

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen

The heart has its reasons, which reason knows not. – Blaise Pascal

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all. – Emily Dickinson

I can resist anything except temptation. – Oscar Wilde

Do not go gentle into that good night. – Dylan Thomas

Life is too short to waste on being normal. – Marilyn Monroe

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

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. – Roald Dahl

We are all fools in love. – Jane Austen