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.
Sorry, But Only 🤓 an Actual Bookworm Can Score 16/22 on This 📚 Famous 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
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
"It was a pleasure to burn."
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"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."
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
"Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"Tomorrow I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Persuasion by Jane Austen
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"All this happened, more or less."
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."
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
1984 by George Orwell
"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise, which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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?"
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"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."
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dracula by Bram Stoker
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
"Call me Ishmael."
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
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."
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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."
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."
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents."
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
