> _"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."_
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
> _"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."_
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
> _"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."_
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)
> _"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way ..." _
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
> _"A brave new world, with all the men and women happy in it. But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."_
1984 by George Orwell (1949)
> _"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."_
Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
> _"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."_
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)
> _"Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy."_
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
> _"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to."_