💬 Quotes

4,062 quotes from great books

"Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood."
Lord of the Fliesby William Golding
"What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?"
Lord of the Fliesby William Golding
"There isn't anyone to help you. Only me. And I'm the Beast."
Lord of the Fliesby William Golding
"Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy."
Lord of the Fliesby William Golding
"¿Qué hay en un nombre? Lo que llamamos rosa, con cualquier otro nombre exhalaría un perfume tan dulce."
Romeo y Julietaby William Shakespeare
"¡Partir es un dolor tan dulce que diré adiós hasta que sea mañana!"
Romeo y Julietaby William Shakespeare
"Estos placeres violentos tienen finales violentos."
Romeo y Julietaby William Shakespeare
"¡Una plaga sobre ambas casas!"
Romeo y Julietaby William Shakespeare
"¡Oh, Romeo, Romeo! ¿Por qué eres Romeo? Niega a tu padre y rechaza tu nombre."
Romeo y Julietaby William Shakespeare
"Nunca hubo una historia más triste que esta de Julieta y su Romeo."
Romeo y Julietaby William Shakespeare
"Community, Identity, Stability."
Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery."
Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley
"Ending is better than mending."
Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley
"Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't."
Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley
"As if one kills things by naming them."
Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
1984by George Orwell
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
1984by George Orwell
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
1984by George Orwell
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever."
1984by George Orwell