If you consider yourself a lover of classic literature, this challenge is for you!

From brooding English moors to glittering Regency drawing rooms, from sweeping Russian epics to sharp social satire, the greatest novels ever written are filled with unforgettable lines.

In this 15-question classic literature quotes quiz, your task is simple:

Can you identify the book each quote comes from?

Some questions will feel immediately familiar to devoted readers of Austen, Dickens, or the Brontës. Others may require a sharper literary memory.

⭐ Most readers score between 8 and 12 out of 15. Can you do better?

Below are fifteen famous quotes drawn from classic works of literature.

Each question includes four possible answers, but take your time — some are deceptively tricky!

Question 1

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

A. Middlemarch – George Eliot

B. Bleak House – Charles Dickens

C. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

D. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

Question 2

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

A. Persuasion – Jane Austen

B. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

C. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

Question 3

“I declare, after all, there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

A. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell

B. Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie

C. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

D. Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens

Question 4

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

A. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

B. Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome

C. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

Question 5

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

A. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

B. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

C. Ulysses – James Joyce

D. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

Question 6

“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

A. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

B. The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger

C. A Room of One's Own – Virginia Woolf

D. Hamlet – William Shakespeare

Question 7

“And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted—nevermore!”

A. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe

B. Paradise Lost - John Milton

C. The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe

D. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle

Question 8

“Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.”

A. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

B. The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux

C. The Call of Cthulhu – H. P. Lovecraft

D. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Question 9

“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”

A. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

B. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë

C. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

D. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell

Question 10

“I like good strong words, that mean something.”

A. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

B. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

C. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

D. Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder

 

 

Question 11

“There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”

A. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes

B. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

C. Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale – Herman Melville

D. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

Question 12

“She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”

A. Jill the Reckless – P. G. Wodehouse

B. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

C. Emma – Jane Austen

D. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

Question 13

“To die of love, is to live in it.”

A. Dracula – Bram Stoker

B. Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

C. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe

D. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo

Question 14

“Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able—to dress and entertain, and order things.”

A. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

B. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë

D. Anne of Green Gables – L. M. Montgomery

Question 15

“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says some women may feel?”

A. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot

B. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

C. Tess of the d'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

D. A Room with a View – E. M. Forster

Answers

1. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (C)

2. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë (B)

3. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (C)

4. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde (A)

5. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (D)

6. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë (A)

7. The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe (C)

8. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (D)

9. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë (B)

10. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (A)

11. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale – Herman Melville (C)

12. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (B)

13. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo (D)

14. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman (A)

15. Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy (C)

 

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