Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Fahrenheit 451.
Literature and Writing Quotes
How inconvenient! Always before it had been like snuffing a candle. The police went first and adhesive-taped the victim's mouth and bandaged him off into their glittering beetle cars, so when you a...
Technology and Modernization Quotes
"All of those chemical balances and percentages on all of us here in the house are recorded in the master file downstairs. It would be easy for someone to set up a partial combination on the Hound'...
Rules and Order Quotes
"It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break eggs at the smaller end."Mildred sat across the hall from him. "What does it mean? It d...
Wisdom and Knowledge Quotes
Montag walked to the kitchen and threw the book down. "Montag," he said, "you're really stupid. Where do we go from here? Do we turn the books in, forget it?" He opened the book to read over Mildre...
Violence Quotes
"I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always used to be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wreck...
Identity Quotes
"You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow." He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a co...
Dissatisfaction Quotes
"Hell!" the operator's cigarette moved on his lips. "We get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had the special machines built." (1.98)
Man and the Natural World Quotes
"I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. "I don't think I'd like that," he said. "You might if you tried." "I never have." She licked her lips. "Rain even tastes good." (1.1...