Print This List    Email to a Friend  

"The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies." Quotes from "Fahrenheit 451"  
PEOPLE 

Tags: Ray Bradbury, Quotes, Saying, Said, Words, Famous, History, Attribute

These are some of the famous quotes from the novel "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury.

	"Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan."
	"It was a pleasure to burn."
	"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."
	"If there were no war, if there was peace in the world, I'd say fine, have fun! But, Montag, you mustn't go back to being just a fireman. All isn't well with the world."
	"... watch for a man running ... watch for the running man . . . watch for a man alone, on foot . . . watch..."
	"The search is over, Montag is dead; a crime against society has been avenged."
	"Walk carefully. Guard your health. If anything should happen to Harris, you are the Book of Ecclesiastes."
	"When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane."
	"We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"
	"The word 'intellectual' became the swear word it deserved to be."
	"That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these."
	"Mistakes can be profited by. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn."
	"With an effort, Montag reminded himself again that this was no fictional episode to be watched on his run to the river; it was in actuality his own chess-game he was witnessing, move by move."
	"The sun burned every day. It burned Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burned!"
	"And he was surprised to learn how certain he suddenly was of a single fact he could not prove."
	"I want to see everything now. And while none of it will be me when it goes in, after a while it'll all gather together inside and it'll be me."
	"You always dread the unfamiliar."

Lister: ListAfterList Wiki Contributors
Source: Compiled by LAL

Other lists of interest:

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." Mark Twain Quotes PEOPLE  (2)

"I shot myself ... I only hope I haven't botched it." Vincent van Gogh Quotes PEOPLE  (0)

"I am a deeply superficial person." Andy Warhol Quotes PEOPLE  (1)

"Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere." George Washington Quotes PEOPLE  (0)

"I see great things in baseball " Walt Whitman Quotes PEOPLE  (0)

This list not rated yet – be the first to rate it 

There are no comments for this list. Be the first to post!