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It’s cliché but true: words are powerful.
If you think about it, language expresses incredibly complex ideas and feelings just using a bunch of random sounds and shapes on paper (or, nowadays, a computer screen), out of which meaning is somehow construed. It’s pretty mind-boggling, and I’m beginning to ramble, but the point I’m really trying to make is… book quotes are amazing. What reader can deny it?
I got the idea for this post from Lost in Neverland’s recent post where she shared a list of book quotes, and I thought, hey, I love quotes and I plaster them all over my reviews to spice them up, so why not compile a list of some of my favorites?
Without further ado, here are some particularly memorable quotes from classics I’ve read.
“Nothing is more deceitful,” said Darcy, “than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
– Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice
“No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused”
– Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive–it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it?”
– L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.”
– Francis Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
“I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new”
– Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
– Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Conventionality is not morality.”
– Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Yes, I know this post was super short, but it was fun to create the list.
Frappes and Fiction 
Thank you for adding TWO Jane Austen quotes! I especially love the one from Northanger Abbey – Henry Tilney is literally my fictional leading man 🤣💖💖
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Northanger Abbey is my favorite Jane Austen book
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It’s truly a great one – which is strange because it’s her first novel, and I don’t usually love first novels (such as in the Harry Potter series XD)
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I can think of many people and characters, fictional and real, past and current— and even currently trending, for whom the first quote rings true.
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Very accurate
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I’m so glad my post inspired you to create this!! I love these quotes and it makes me actually want to read some classics as I’ve only really read Emma!
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thanks! I read Emma last year as well, but it was actually my least favorite Jane Austen book out of the 3 I’ve read. You should try Pride & Prejudice if you like romance or Northanger Abbey if you like more satirical-ish books (that one is my favorite)
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I’ll check them out! I’ve been meaning to read Pride & Prejudice for years!
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I loved the Charles Dickens one!
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yes, A Christmas Carol is a really good book
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Ahh great quotes! My faves are the Anne of Green Gables one 😍 and the Northanger Abbey one 😂👏
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same, actually!
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Pride and Prejudice is so wonderful! Have you read Little Women? I feel silly asking that. 😆
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It’s funny that you ask that because I’m actually reading Little Women right now
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That’s actually a little odd, Really cool but.. what are the chances?
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I loved this! Thank you for sharing these wonderful quotes with us, Emily. 😀
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thanks for reading!
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These are amazing quotes! ❤
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thanks
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Love that Anne of Green Gables quote!! Absolutely love Anne’s outlook on life and that book series never fails to put me in a good mood!
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yes! I haven’t read it since I was 10 or 11, but I remember absolutely loving the first and second books. I never finished the series but I really need to.
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