Leo Tolstoy Quotes From War and Peace, Anna Karenina and More
From the most famous first line in Russian fiction to Pierre's questions about how to live. Tolstoy quotes in public-domain English translations, each with...
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Quotes by author, from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf and the Brontë sisters. Every line is copied from the full text of the book and cited to the chapter it comes from, with a note on who says it and what is happening in the scene, so you can read the passage around it. For Lucy’s personal favourites from modern novels, see her quote collection.
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, From the Tales and Poems
Beyond "Nevermore": Poe's most quoted lines from his tales, poems and essays, each found in the text, with what the narrator is doing when...
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Emily Dickinson Quotes: Lines From Her Poems
Dickinson compressed whole arguments into a few lines. The lines people quote, and the poems they come from, as printed in the early public-domain...
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes From Walden and Beyond
Thoreau wrote for people who suspect they are living wrong. The essential lines from Walden, Civil Disobedience and Walking, each with the chapter or...
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Mark Twain Quotes, Checked Against His Books
Half the Mark Twain quotes online are not by Mark Twain. These are: lines from Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Pudd'nhead Wilson and his travel...
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Oscar Wilde Quotes Beyond Dorian Gray: The Plays, Essays and Letters
Wilde's best lines are spread across his comedies, essays and De Profundis. Quotes from The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, The Decay...
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The Brontë Sisters’ Best Lines: Charlotte, Emily and Anne
Three sisters, one parsonage, and very different novels. The lines worth knowing from Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of...
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Charles Dickens Quotes, With the Chapter Each One Comes From
Dickens's best lines are funnier and sharper in their scenes. Quotes from Great Expectations, Bleak House, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and A Tale of...
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Virginia Woolf Quotes From Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse
Woolf's sentences are hard to cut down to a quote without losing the turn in the middle. The lines that survive it, with the...
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Oscar Wilde’s Best Lines From The Picture of Dorian Gray, in Context
Most of the novel's famous epigrams belong to Lord Henry, and the book does not take his side. Who says each line, in which...
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Jane Austen Quotes, With the Chapter Each One Comes From
Austen's best lines are funnier in context. The quotes worth knowing from Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, each with its chapter,...
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