Fahrenheit 451 quotes with page numbers

It was a pleasure to burn. (Page 1)

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. (Page 58)

We’re making a house of cards. It’s all going to collapse one day. (Page 79)

Nobody listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. (Page 47)

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes! (Page 80)

Have you ever read any of the books you burn? (Page 8)

Do you ever read any of the books you burn? (Page 8)

They passed a law against it. Oh, of course, it started very small, but why should there be a law against it? (Page 58)

Are you happy? (Page 10)

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. (Page 26)

There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house. (Page 50)

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. (Page 79)

What is there about fire that’s so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it? (Page 8)

We need help, the quick wax job and scrape, not the long cement haul. (Page 13)

Now let’s take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don’t step on the toes of the dog-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. (Page 63)

Fahrenheit 451 quotes with page numbers part 2

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other. (Page 58)

But remember this, Bowling. It’s not your game that counts. It’s how you play it. (Page 92)

We need not to be let alone. 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? (Page 51)

Stop the race toward destruction. (Page 151)

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. (Page 34)

A little learning is a dangerous thing. (Page 55)

Those who don’t build must burn. (Page 59)

We’re heading toward the kind of world where everyone’s afraid to be alone. (Page 80)

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. (Page 86)

Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he’s the Lord of all Creation. (Page 91)

Nobody ever listens to me. (Page 46)

The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we mustn’t be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. (Page 58)

There’s a man there might be more. (Page 113)

The moon put its hands over its face. (Page 175)

If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. (Page 57)

Any man’s insane who thinks he can fool the government. (Page 94)

We’re nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise. (Page 81)

Books bombarded our different senses until the sheer accumulation of detail had begun to stand for something concrete in our minds. (Page 81)

It’s as good as I remember. Lord, how they’ve changed it in our ‘parlor walls’ these days. (Page 100)

We’re all fools making a fuss over nonsense. (Page 95)

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. (Page 33)

I don’t talk things, sir, said Faber. I talk the meaning of things. (Page 82)

knowledge has fallen into the silliest hands in the world. (Page 105)

Some day the load we’re carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we didn’t use what we got out of them. We went right on insulting the dead. (Page 82)

How do I choose a book? Here. Let me show. Here in my head, I can find anything in there… (Page 104)

Mankind must be happy with faint kisses on the lips, that just break off, and promise more firmer kisses in the future, but let you die. (Page 116)

They have to burn books like ‘They Used to Stay,’ because we can’t learn from those experiences anymore. (Page 132)

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. (Page 149)

Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. (Page 81)

Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore. (Page 73)