Many of us enjoy a good book, whether it is a mystery that intrigues, a touching story that moves us to tears, or a poem that rouses our passions, a piece of well-written literature can have an impact on our emotions, on our behavior and even on our values. To quote Cliff Fadiman, "When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before." From a striking first sentence to a well-written string of dialogue, many memorable lines stay with us long after we turn the final page.
If you know plenty of iconic literary quotes, then you should not have a problem acing this quiz. You will be given a quote in each question, and you have to match it to the book it came from. Even if you have never read these books, you may have come across at least a couple of these quotes because they are so iconic. Complete this quiz to find out how well-read you actually are.
Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Questions
What book is this line from? "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
"It was a pleasure to burn."
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontΓ«
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
"Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
"Tomorrow I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Beloved by Toni Morrison
"All this happened, more or less."
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
1984 by George Orwell
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
"3 May. Bistritz. Left Munich at 8:35 P.M, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late."
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
Dracula by Bram Stoker
1984 by George Orwell
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise, which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well β or ill?"
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Dracula by Bram Stoker
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine LβEngle
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
"Call me Ishmael."
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontΓ«
"Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark. For the straightforward pathway had been lost."
Dante's Inferno
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
"You better not never tell nobody but God."
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents."
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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