Best Quotes from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury with Page Numbers

It was a pleasure to burn.

With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world.

He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace.

The air seemed charged with a special calm.

It was not the hysterical light of electricity but-what? But the strangely comfortable and rare and gently flattering light of the candle.

I like to smell things and look at things.

You know, I'm not afraid of you at all.

You laugh when I haven't been funny and you answer right off.

There’s dew on the grass in the morning.

You should have seen her, Millie! She was as rational as you and I, more so perhaps, and we burned her.

`We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over, so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.'

"The favourite subject, Myself."

"She was the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as if I counted."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn."

"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 headed for shore."

"The secret of happiness is in the quality of your thoughts."

"What is there about fire that's so lovely?"

"It's a problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it."

"Well, now I've done both. Good-bye, Captain."

"If there was no solution, well then now there was no problem, either."

"The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers."

"When you're quite finished, you're under arrest."

"Burn the throwrug in the parlour."

"I can't stay long. I'm on my way God knows where."

"You did what you had to do. It was coming on for a long time."

"You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you."