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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 Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

"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

  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

"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

  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

"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
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau

  • Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

"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
  • 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."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Secret Hidden Treasure Chest
  • The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

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

  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

"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
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison

  • Dracula by Bram Stoker

  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

"All this happened, more or less."

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

  • 1984 by George Orwell

  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

  • 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."

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

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

"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
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

  • Dracula by Bram Stoker

  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

  • 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."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Tornado
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

  • Dracula by Bram Stoker

  • The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

"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
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck

  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

"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
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison

"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

  • Dracula by Bram Stoker

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

"Call me Ishmael."

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

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville

  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

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

  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

"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
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

  • Dante's Inferno

"You better not never tell nobody but God."

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz Afterlife
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker

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

Only Actual Bookworm Can Score 16 on This Novel Quotes Quiz presents
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

"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
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

  • The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison

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