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Sorry, But Only 🤓 an Actual Bookworm Can Score 16/22 on This 📚 Famous Novel Quotes Quiz

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.

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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."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz New York City lights
  • 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."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Fire burning building
  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

"I would always rather be happy than dignified."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Happy Smile Woman
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt

"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."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Caring Friends Hugging Nurturing siblings sisters
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

  • 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."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Farm
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

  • Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau

"Tomorrow I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Couple Argument Conflict
  • 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."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Secret Hidden Treasure Chest
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

  • The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Viking Ships Courtesy History Resized
  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

  • Dracula by Bram Stoker

"All this happened, more or less."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Books
  • 1984 by George Orwell

  • The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

"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."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Vienna, Austria
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

  • Dracula by Bram Stoker

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Cold person trembling shivering
  • 1984 by George Orwell

  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

  • Dracula by Bram Stoker

"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise, which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Tornado
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker

  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

  • The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

"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 — or ill?"

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz old person thinking
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck

  • 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."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Snow Sledding
  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • 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."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz New York USA
  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison

  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Boat
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

  • Dracula by Bram Stoker

"Call me Ishmael."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz books
  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville

  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz wedding couple2
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

  • The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt

"Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark. For the straightforward pathway had been lost."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Forest Woods Red Trees Nature
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

  • Dante's Inferno

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

"You better not never tell nobody but God."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Afterlife
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker

  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz presents
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Family having a barbecue party
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison

  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

  • The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

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