Quotes From The Classics

If you love the classics, then you will love these standout quotes from dozens of world-renowned classic novels curated by the Genretop review team.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned! - Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows. - Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier

The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then. - Jack Kerouac, On the Road

In his Petersburg world, all people were divided into two completely opposite sorts. One was the inferior sort: the banal, stupid and, above all, ridiculous people who believed that one husband should live with one wife, whom he has married in a church, that a girl should be innocent, a woman modest, a man manly, temperate and firm, that one should raise children, earn one’s bread, pay one’s debts, and other such stupidities. This was an old-fashioned and ridiculous sort of people. But there was another sort of people, the real ones, to which they all belonged, and for whom one had, above all, to be elegant, handsome, magnanimous, bold, gay, to give oneself to every passion without blushing and laugh at everything else. - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don’t. - D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. - Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate. - William Golding, Lord of the Flies

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you. - Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” - Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. - Jane Austen, Emma You can’t breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence. - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Time, which sees all things, has found you out. - Sophocles, Oedipus the King

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