Famous Literary Quotes: 50 Great Quotations That Endure 

Famous literary quotes from plays, poetry, novels, and essays have endured over time. These timeless quotations have the power to inspire, provoke thought, and capture the essence of human experience. Shakespeare’s poetic words, to chilling warnings of Orwell, these quotations have become part of the literary culture. These quotes have the power to offer insight and wisdom to those who seek it. In this blog, we have covered some of the best 50 most famous quotes in literature that you must read.

5 Short Famous Literary Quotes

These are the short, famous literary quotes in the English language

1. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on — Robert Frost
2. There is no friend as loyal as a book — Ernest Hemingway
3. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough — Mae West
4. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others — George Orwell
5. Not all those who wander are lost — J.R.R. Tolkien

5 Famous Literary Quotes from Literature and Poetry

These are the famous literary quotes from literature and poetry

1. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul — Emily Dickinson
2. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by — Robert Frost
3. If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals — J.K. Rowling
4. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife — Jane Austen
5. Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words — Robert Frost
   

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5 Short Quotes from Books for Everyone

Here are some short, famous literary quotes that you will love

1. After all this time? Always — J.K. Rowling
2. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us — J.R.R. Tolkien
3. After all, tomorrow is another day — Margaret Mitchell
4. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past — F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what — Harper Lee
   

5 Famous Literary Quotes About Life

These are some of the most famous literary quotes on life you will ever read

1. Life is made of ever so many partings welded together — Charles Dickens
2. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars — Oscar Wilde
3. Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs — Charlotte Brontë
4. To live will be an awfully big adventure — J.M. Barrie
5. Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans — John Lennon
   

5 Famous Literary Quotes About Friendship

Here are some of the famous literary quotes about friendship

1. Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive — Anaïs Nin
2. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out — Walter Winchell
3. Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love — William Shakespeare
4. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you — Elbert Hubbard
5. Friends are the family you choose — Jess C. Scott

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5 Famous Literary Quotes About Family

These are some literary quotes about family that you must read

1. Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children — William Makepeace Thackeray
2. Family is not an important thing. It’s everything — Michael J. Fox
3. You don’t choose your family, they are God’s gift to you — Desmond Tutu
4. The bond that links your true family is not one of blood but of respect and joy in each other’s life — Richard Bach
5. Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter — Brad Henry

5 Famous Literary Quotes About Spring

These are the most famous quotes in literature about spring

1. April hath put a spirit of youth in everything — William Shakespeare
2. Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring — Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. Sweet spring its own sweet self unlocks the flowers — Edna St. Vincent Millay
4. No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn — Hal Borland
5. Spring will come and so will happiness — you just have to wait — Mandy Hale
   

5 Famous Literary Quotes Shakespeare

These are the best literary quotes from Shakespeare

1. To be or not to be that is the question — William Shakespeare
2. All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players — William Shakespeare
3. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves — William Shakespeare
4. We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep — William Shakespeare
5. Love all trust a few do wrong to none — William Shakespeare

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5 Famous Literary Quotes About Death

Here are some of the most famous quotes in literature

1. Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them — George Eliot
2. To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure — J.K. Rowling
3. Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life — Bertolt Brecht
4. Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me — Emily Dickinson
5. Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.- Helen Keller

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