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Quotes from 161 books on this site. Each quote is copied exactly from the book’s text in this site’s reader (each book’s quotes page names its Project Gutenberg e-text) and links to its passage; when these pages were built, every quote was checked word for word against that text.

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A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens · 13 quotes
A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen · 14 quotes
A farewell to arms Ernest Hemingway · 11 quotes
A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett · 12 quotes
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare · 15 quotes
A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift · 10 quotes
A Passage to India E. M. Forster · 11 quotes
A Room with a View E. M. Forster · 13 quotes
A Shropshire Lad A. E Housman · 17 quotes
A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle · 12 quotes
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens · 12 quotes
Adam Bede George Eliot · 12 quotes
Aesop's Fables; a new translation Aesop · 14 quotes
Age of Innocence Edith Wharton · 15 quotes
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll · 12 quotes
Anabasis Xenophon · 18 quotes
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy · 14 quotes
Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery · 17 quotes
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne · 12 quotes
As a man thinketh James Allen · 16 quotes
As You Like It William Shakespeare · 21 quotes
Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda · 16 quotes
Benito Cereno Herman Melville · 11 quotes
Beowulf Anonymous; trans. Francis Barton Gummere · 13 quotes
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · 12 quotes
Black Beauty Anna Sewell · 16 quotes
Bleak House Charles Dickens · 10 quotes
Candide Voltaire · 17 quotes
Carmilla Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · 16 quotes
Common Sense Thomas Paine · 13 quotes
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky · 14 quotes
Daisy Miller Henry James · 10 quotes
David Copperfield Charles Dickens · 18 quotes
Discourse on Method René Descartes · 14 quotes
Don Juan Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron · 16 quotes
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes · 15 quotes
Dracula Bram Stoker · 18 quotes
Elements of Style William Strunk · 11 quotes
Emma Jane Austen · 14 quotes
Evelina Frances Burney · 13 quotes
Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 16 quotes
From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon Jules Verne · 13 quotes
Great Expectations Charles Dickens · 14 quotes
Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift · 16 quotes
Hamlet William Shakespeare · 23 quotes
Hard Times Charles Dickens · 22 quotes
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad · 13 quotes
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York Jacob A. Riis · 17 quotes
In Memoriam Alfred Tennyson · 18 quotes
Inferno Dante Alighieri · 11 quotes
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë · 17 quotes
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson · 12 quotes
King Lear William Shakespeare · 20 quotes
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · 10 quotes
Les Misérables Victor Hugo · 14 quotes
Leviathan: with Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668 Thomas Hobbes · 10 quotes
Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain · 12 quotes
Little Women Louisa May Alcott · 14 quotes
Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth · 15 quotes
Lysistrata Aristophanes · 18 quotes
Macbeth William Shakespeare · 17 quotes
Man and Nature George P. Marsh · 10 quotes
Mary Barton Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · 15 quotes
Meditations Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome · 11 quotes
Middlemarch George Eliot · 11 quotes
Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe · 14 quotes
Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens · 13 quotes
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen · 16 quotes
Oedipus Rex Sophocles · 19 quotes
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens · 11 quotes
On Liberty John Stuart Mill · 12 quotes
On the Nature of Things Titus Lucretius Carus · 10 quotes
On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin · 15 quotes
On War Carl von Clausewitz · 10 quotes
Othello William Shakespeare · 14 quotes
Paradise Lost John Milton · 10 quotes
Peter Pan J. M. Barrie · 15 quotes
Phaedo Plato · 16 quotes
Phaedrus Plato; trans. Benjamin Jowett · 10 quotes
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 18 quotes
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw · 12 quotes
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Edwin Lefèvre · 21 quotes
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare · 17 quotes
Roughing It Mark Twain · 12 quotes
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen · 14 quotes
Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser · 10 quotes
Symposium Plato; trans. Benjamin Jowett · 22 quotes
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs · 16 quotes
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain · 15 quotes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle · 16 quotes
The Art of War Sun Tzu / Sunzi (trans. Lionel Giles) · 10 quotes
The Birth of Tragedy, or Hellenism and Pessimism Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · 12 quotes
The Blue Castle: a novel L. M. Montgomery · 14 quotes
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 17 quotes
The Call of the Wild Jack London · 12 quotes
The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe · 13 quotes
The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole · 12 quotes
The Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare · 12 quotes
The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius · 11 quotes
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas · 14 quotes
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri · 10 quotes
The Dubliners James Joyce · 16 quotes
The Dunwich horror H. P. Lovecraft · 18 quotes
The Enchanted April Elizabeth Von Arnim · 15 quotes
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald · 14 quotes
The Great God Pan Arthur Machen · 12 quotes
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle · 14 quotes
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton · 11 quotes
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 11 quotes
The Iliad Homer (trans. Samuel Butler) · 22 quotes
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People Oscar Wilde · 14 quotes
The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud · 10 quotes
The Jungle Upton Sinclair · 14 quotes
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling · 16 quotes
The King in Yellow Robert W. Chambers · 18 quotes
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper · 11 quotes
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving · 18 quotes
The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle · 10 quotes
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare G. K. Chesterton · 11 quotes
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle · 12 quotes
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot · 19 quotes
The Monk: A Romance M. G. Lewis · 13 quotes
The murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie · 10 quotes
The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Ward Radcliffe · 15 quotes
The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie · 12 quotes
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens · 10 quotes
The Odyssey Homer, trans. Samuel Butler · 19 quotes
The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux · 16 quotes
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde · 11 quotes
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 Henry James · 11 quotes
The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli · 10 quotes
The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain · 10 quotes
The Republic Plato (trans. Benjamin Jowett) · 10 quotes
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne · 13 quotes
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad · 12 quotes
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett · 13 quotes
The Sign of the Four Arthur Conan Doyle · 19 quotes
The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 16 quotes
The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois · 18 quotes
The Story of My Life Helen Keller · 15 quotes
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter · 17 quotes
The three musketeers Alexandre Dumas · 10 quotes
The Time Machine H. G. Wells · 12 quotes
The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith · 13 quotes
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells · 14 quotes
The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith · 14 quotes
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins · 14 quotes
The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 16 quotes
Theaetetus Plato · 11 quotes
Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll · 14 quotes
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · 18 quotes
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson · 18 quotes
Twelve Years a Slave Solomon Northup · 12 quotes
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne · 11 quotes
Ulysses James Joyce · 16 quotes
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe · 15 quotes
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography Booker T. Washington · 23 quotes
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray · 11 quotes
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy · 12 quotes
White Fang Jack London · 19 quotes
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë · 15 quotes

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A. E Housman 17 quotes
Agatha Christie 40 quotes
Alexandre Dumas 30 quotes
Alexis de Tocqueville 9 quotes
Alfred Tennyson 18 quotes
Anatole France 8 quotes
Ann Ward Radcliffe 21 quotes
Anna Sewell 16 quotes
Arthur Conan Doyle 74 quotes
Arthur Machen 12 quotes
Beatrix Potter 17 quotes
Booker T. Washington 27 quotes
Bram Stoker 21 quotes
Carl von Clausewitz 10 quotes
Charles Darwin 16 quotes
Charles Dickens 135 quotes
Charlotte Brontë 17 quotes
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 22 quotes
Daniel Defoe 22 quotes
Dante Alighieri 21 quotes
E. M. Forster 31 quotes
Edgar Allan Poe 18 quotes
Edgar Rice Burroughs 16 quotes
Edith Wharton 29 quotes
Edwin Lefèvre 21 quotes
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 12 quotes
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 26 quotes
Elizabeth Von Arnim 19 quotes
Emily Brontë 15 quotes
Emma Goldman 10 quotes
Emmeline Pankhurst 10 quotes
Ernest Hemingway 11 quotes
F. Scott Fitzgerald 21 quotes
Frances Burney 13 quotes
Frances Hodgson Burnett 25 quotes
Frederick Douglass 8 quotes
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 42 quotes
Fyodor Dostoevsky 14 quotes
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 29 quotes
G. K. Chesterton 13 quotes
Gaston Leroux 19 quotes
George Bernard Shaw 16 quotes
George Eliot 44 quotes
George P. Marsh 10 quotes
H. G. Wells 26 quotes
H. P. Lovecraft 36 quotes
Harriet Beecher Stowe 17 quotes
Helen Keller 15 quotes
Henrik Ibsen 16 quotes
Henry James 28 quotes
Herman Melville 17 quotes
Horace Walpole 12 quotes
Howard Pyle 13 quotes
Ingersoll Lockwood 10 quotes
Isaac Asimov 12 quotes
J. M. Barrie 20 quotes
Jack London 37 quotes
Jacob A. Riis 17 quotes
James Allen 16 quotes
James Fenimore Cooper 15 quotes
James Joyce 32 quotes
Jane Austen 71 quotes
Johann David Wyss 13 quotes
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 17 quotes
John Locke 11 quotes
John Milton 13 quotes
John Stuart Mill 16 quotes
Jonathan Swift 29 quotes
Joseph Conrad 25 quotes
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 16 quotes
Jules Verne 36 quotes
Kate Chopin 9 quotes
L. M. Montgomery 33 quotes
Leo Tolstoy 28 quotes
Lewis Carroll 26 quotes
Louisa May Alcott 20 quotes
M. G. Lewis 13 quotes
Marco Polo 9 quotes
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome 11 quotes
Mark Twain 50 quotes
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 16 quotes
Miguel de Cervantes 15 quotes
Nathaniel Hawthorne 14 quotes
Niccolò Machiavelli 10 quotes
Oliver Goldsmith 17 quotes
Oscar Wilde 25 quotes
P. G. Wodehouse 15 quotes
Paramahansa Yogananda 16 quotes
René Descartes 15 quotes
Robert Louis Stevenson 30 quotes
Robert W. Chambers 21 quotes
Rudyard Kipling 20 quotes
Sigmund Freud 12 quotes
Solomon Northup 12 quotes
T. S. Eliot 13 quotes
Theodore Dreiser 15 quotes
Thomas Hobbes 10 quotes
Thomas More 9 quotes
Thomas Paine 19 quotes
Titus Lucretius Carus 10 quotes
Ulysses S. Grant 16 quotes
Upton Sinclair 14 quotes
Victor Hugo 15 quotes
Virginia Woolf 12 quotes
W.E.B. Du Bois 18 quotes
Walt Whitman 11 quotes
Washington Irving 20 quotes
Wilkie Collins 20 quotes
William Makepeace Thackeray 13 quotes
William Shakespeare 145 quotes
William Strunk 11 quotes
William Wordsworth 17 quotes