Fahrenheit 451 Quotes
“She’s dead. Let’s talk about someone alive, for goodness’ sake.”
“She was the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as if I counted.”
“It’s only a dog, that’s what! You want me to shoo him away?”
“Books aren’t people. You read and I look all around, but there isn’t anybody!”
“He might come and burn the house and the ‘family.’ That’s awful! Think of our investment.”
“What about Clarisse McClellan, where do we look for her? The morgue! Listen!”
“How in the hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives!”
“Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just don’t care if they are?”
“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave.”
“They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!”
“I don’t talk things, sir,” “Italk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I’m alive.”
“This is some sort of trap! I can’t talk to just anyone on the phone!”
“If I pick a substitute and Beatty does know which book I stole, he’ll guess we’ve an entire library here!”
“Light the first page, light the second page. Each becomes a black butterfly.”
“Milie does” “does your ‘family’ love you, love you very much, love you with all their heart and soul, Millie?”
“Shut up, shut up, shut up!”
“Lilies of the field.”
“My wife’s dying. A friend of mine’s already dead.”
“Christ is one of the ‘family’ now.”
“He’s a regular peppermint stick now all sugar-crystal and saccharine when he isn’t making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshiper absolutely needs.”
“Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward.”
“I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the ‘guilty,’ but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.”
“And I want you to teach me to understand what I read”
“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.”
“So I thought books might help.”
“It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that
“She was the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as if I counted.”
“It’s only a dog, that’s what! You want me to shoo him away?”
“Books aren’t people. You read and I look all around, but there isn’t anybody!”
“He might come and burn the house and the ‘family.’ That’s awful! Think of our investment.”
“What about Clarisse McClellan, where do we look for her? The morgue! Listen!”
“How in the hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives!”
“Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just don’t care if they are?”
“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave.”
“They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!”
“I don’t talk things, sir,” “Italk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I’m alive.”
“This is some sort of trap! I can’t talk to just anyone on the phone!”
“If I pick a substitute and Beatty does know which book I stole, he’ll guess we’ve an entire library here!”
“Light the first page, light the second page. Each becomes a black butterfly.”
“Milie does” “does your ‘family’ love you, love you very much, love you with all their heart and soul, Millie?”
“Shut up, shut up, shut up!”
“Lilies of the field.”
“My wife’s dying. A friend of mine’s already dead.”
“Christ is one of the ‘family’ now.”
“He’s a regular peppermint stick now all sugar-crystal and saccharine when he isn’t making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshiper absolutely needs.”
“Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward.”
“I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the ‘guilty,’ but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.”
“And I want you to teach me to understand what I read”
“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.”
“So I thought books might help.”
“It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that