farenheit 451 quotes
| “You weren’t hurting anyone, you were hurting only things! And since things really couldn’t be hurt, since things felt nothing, and things don’t scream or whimper, as this woman might begin to scream and cry out,there was nothing to tease your conscience later” (Bradbury 34). | Montag | |
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| “None of those books agree with each other. You’ve been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived”(Bradbury 35). | Beatty \n \n \n \n | |
| “Last night I thought about all the kerosene I’ve used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of those books” (Bradbury 51). | Montag \n \n \n \n \n | |
| “Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths” (54). | Beatty | |
| “The important thing for you to remember…is that we’re the happiness boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought” (61). | Beatty | |
| Part 2: The Sieve and the Sand | ||
| “Books aren’t people. You read and I look around, but there isn’t anybody!” (Bradbury 73). | Mildred | |
| “It’s been a long time. I’m not a religious man. But it’s been a long time” (Bradbury 81). | Beatty | |
| “Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features” (Bradbury 83). | Faber | |
| “I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten. I put up with them when they come home three days a month; it’s not bad at all. You heave them into the ‘parlor’ and turn the switch. It’s like washing clothes: stuff laundry in and slam the lid” (96). | Mrs. Bowles | |
| “What traitors books can be! You think they’re backing you up and they turn on you” (Bradbury 107). | Beatty | |
| Part 3: Burning Bright | ||
| “Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now” (114). | Mildred | |
| “We’ll pass the books on to our children, by word of mouth, and let our children wait, in turn, on the other people” (153). | Granger | |
| “There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up” (163). | Granger | |
| “Come on now, we’re going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them” (164). | Granger |
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