We have the pleasure of being surrounded by books all day here at World of Rare Books HQ. As book-lovers it’s a pleasure to have so many wonderful stories at our disposal, but sometimes we do take it for granted. So many titles, with some beautiful quotations and snippets, we will keep with us forever. With so many to choose from across the literary world, here’s just a small selection of our favourite book quotes:

Number One:

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
– Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Number Two:

“Lay on, Macduff, and damned be him who first cries ‘Hold! enough!’”
– Macbeth, William Shakespeare

Number Three:

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting”
– Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

Number Four:

“What’s in a name? That with we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet”
– Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

Number Five:

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted”
– The Lion and the Mouse, Aesop’s Fables

Number Six:

“Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin”
– The Spy Who Loved Me, Ian Fleming

Number Seven:

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Number Eight:

“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse”
– Twas the Night Before Christmas, Clement Moore

Number Nine:

“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”
– A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

Number Ten:

“All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost”
– The Fellowship of The Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien