Famous quotes, in English and Korean
The most memorable lines from classic novels, exactly as written — with a fresh Korean translation, the story behind the line, and a tap-to-translate English reading.
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
“Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.”
The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
“God bless Us, Every One!”
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
“We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
Emma
Jane Austen
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.”
Persuasion
Jane Austen
“Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
“I've got out at last, in spite of you and Jane! And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!”
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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