Fahrenheit 451 Quotes Florez

Granger

They're faking. You threw them off at the river. They can't admit it. They know they can hold their audience only so long. The show's got to have a snap ending, quick!... So they're sniffing for a scapegoat to end things with a bang.

Montag

I don't belong with you. I've been an idiot all the way.

Beatty

More sports for everyone, group spirit, fun, and you don't have to think, eh? Organize and organize and super organize super-super sports. More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less. Impatience. Highways full of crowds going som

Granger

Walk carefully. Guard your health. If any thing should happen to Harris, you are the book of Ecclesiastes. See how important you've become in the last minute!

Mildred

He'll come in and burn us and the books... What does it mean? It doesn't mean anything! The captain was right!

Montag

When did we meet and where?... The first time we ever met, where was it and when?

Beatty

We shall this day light such as candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Clarisse

They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else...

Beatty

Montag, a funny thing... Fireman in Seattle purposely set a mechanical hound to his own chemical complex and let it loose. What kind of suicide would you call that?

Faber

The book... don't tear it anymore... Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

Bowles

I've always said poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness; all that mush! Now i've had it proved to me. You're nasty, Mr. Montag, you're nasty!... Silly awful hurting words.

Montag

'Ah, love, let us be true/ To one another! for the world, which seems/ to lie before us like a land of dreams,/ so various, so beautiful, so new,/... where ignorant armies clash by night.

Clarisse

Isn't this a nice time of night to walk? I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.

Montag

It's the dandelion. You've used it all up on yourself. That's why it won't work for me.

Beatty

Any man's insane who thinks he can fool the government and us.

Mildred

...I think she's dead. The family moved out anyway. I don't know. But I think she's dead.

Beatty

Every fireman sooner or later, hits this. They only need understanding, to know how the wheels run. Need to know the history of our profession.

Beatty

We're the happiness boys, the dixie duo, you and I and the others.

Mildred

See what you're doing? You'll ruin us! What's more important? Me or that Bible

Faber

Do you know that all books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once.

Faber

So now do you know why books are hated and feared? They show pores in the face of life.

Montag

I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me.

Phelps

It's our third marriage each and we're independent. Be independent, we always said. He said if I get killed off, you just go right ahead and don't cry, but get married again, and don't think of me.

Bowles

I've had two children by caesarean section. No use going through all that agony for the baby.

Bowles

I laid it on the line for President Noble. I think he's one of the nicest- looking men ever became president.

Granger

We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise. Some of us live in small towns. Chapter one of Thoreau's Walden in Green River...

Montag

She was the first person in a many good years I've really liked.

Mildred

Why should I read? What for?

Granger

Grandfather's been dead for all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by god, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint.

Beatty

Speed up the film, Montag, quick. Click, pic, look, eye, now, flick, here, there, swift, pace, up, down, in, out, why, how, who, what, where, eh? Uh! Bang! Smack! Wallop, bing, bong, boom!... Whirl a man's mind around about so fast under the pumping hand

Clarisse

And sometimes I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?

Montag

I don't know anything any more.

Montag

Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me...I just want someone to hear what I say... And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.

Faber

I'll be with you the rest of the night, a vinegar gnat tickling your ear when you need me.

Phelps

I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten. I put up with them when they come home three days a month...you heave them into the 'parlor' and turn the switch.

Montag

Only a week ago, pumping a kerosene hose, I thought: God, what fun!

Mildred

I meant to tell you. Forgot, Forgot. I think she's gone. Whole family moved out somewhere. But she's gone for good. I think she's dead... Run over by a car.

Mildred

Let me alone... I didn't do anything.

Granger

[E]very few hundred years [the phoenix] built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been first cousin to man. But every time he burnt himself, up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same t

Mildred

I always like to drive fast when I feel that way. You get it up around ninety-five and you feel wonderful... It's fun out in the country. You hit rabbits, sometimes you hit dogs...

Faber

Do you hate me for this electronic cowardice of mine? Here I am sending you out into the night, while I stay behind the
lines with my damned ears listening for you to get your head chopped off.

Mildred

...[O]nce a year, every fireman's allowed to bring one book home from the old days, to show his family how silly it was, how nervous that sort of thing can make you, how crazy. Guy's surprise tonight is to read you one sample to show you how mixed-up thi

Faber

It's a devious plan, if I do say so myself... to see the firehouses burn across the land, destroyed as hotbeds of treason. The salamander devours his tail.

Mildred

You can't be sick... You're not sick... You were all right last night... You want to give up everything? After all these years of working, because, one night, doe woman and her books--

Granger

Someday the load we're carrying may help someone... When they ask us what we're doing, you can say, we're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run.

Beatty

Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book... Burn all, burn everythin