💬 Quotes

4,434 quotes from great books

"Arms and the man I sing, who first from the coasts of Troy, exiled by fate, came to Italy and Lavinian shores."
The Aeneidby Virgil
"Facilis descensus Averno: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hic labor est."
The Aeneidby Virgil
"Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt."
The Aeneidby Virgil
"Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos."
The Aeneidby Virgil
"Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo."
The Aeneidby Virgil
"Disce, puer, virtutem ex me verumque laborem, fortunam ex aliis."
The Aeneidby Virgil
"Life is a game. It's a game of survival. If you don't fight, you'll be killed."
Battle Royaleby Kōshun Takami
"In this world, there is no such thing as being fair. There is only the living and the dead."
Battle Royaleby Kōshun Takami
"The darkness of the human heart is bottomless. When you are pushed to the limit, you will see it for yourself."
Battle Royaleby Kōshun Takami
"Don't ever give up. Even if it's only for one more second, try to live. That's the only way you can ever win."
Battle Royaleby Kōshun Takami
"Whatever happens tomorrow, we've had today."
One Dayby David Nicholls
"If you look at this through the eyes of the government, this is a necessary sacrifice for the stability of the nation."
Battle Royaleby Kōshun Takami
"We were friends yesterday, but today we are enemies. This is the reality they forced upon us."
Battle Royaleby Kōshun Takami
"A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager."
Around the world in eighty daysby Jules Verne
"I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new."
Around the world in eighty daysby Jules Verne
"Fortune favors the bold."
Around the world in eighty daysby Jules Verne
"What is the use of being an Englishman, if you don't know how to be proud of your country?"
Around the world in eighty daysby Jules Verne
"Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour of the world in eighty days?"
Around the world in eighty daysby Jules Verne
"In this world, it is necessary to live one's life as if it were a matter of time, for time is the only thing we truly possess."
Around the world in eighty daysby Jules Verne
"Je n'ai pas l'intention de vous rendre visite, Clarice. Le monde est tellement plus intéressant avec vous dedans."
Le silence des agneauxby Thomas Harris