Fahrenheit 451 Quotes

“It was a pleasure to burn.”

“Those who don't build must burn.”

“And the war began and ended in that instant.”

“We never burned right...”

“"Who are a little wise, the best fools be." Welcome back, Montag.”

“Sparknotes on Fahrenheit 451”

“Walk carefully. Guard your health. If anything should happen to Harris, you are the Book of Ecclesiastes. (151)”

“BookRags study guide on Fahrenheit 451”

“Review of the 1966 movie adaptation, with links”

“Information about Fahrenheit 451”

“Out of two separate and opposite things, a third. And one day he would look back upon the fool and know the fool.”

“Then she seemed to remember something and came back to look at him with wonder and curiosity. "Are you happy?" she said. (10 or 7)”

“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. (83)”

“Montag turned and glanced back.
What did you give to the city, Montag?
Ashes.
What did the others give to each other?
Nothingness.”

“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. (7)”

“And if there is something here, just one little thing out of a whole mess of things, maybe we can pass it on to someone else. (67)”

“Montag picked a single small volume from the floor. "Where do we begin?" He opened the book halfway and peered at it. "We begin by beginning, I guess." (68)”

“I paid for all this — how? Playing the stock-market, of course, the last refuge in the world for the dangerous intellectual out of a job.(90)”

“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.”

“It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I came along in two minutes and boom! it's all over. (49)”