36 Movie Quotes about Literature with Audio

Updated: Aug 11, 2026

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1 You like to read? -Oh, yes, I love to read. -What do you like to read? -Everything, but lately I've been reading Darles Chickens.

Mara Wilson as Matilda Wormwood in Matilda (1996)

2 If you were asked to choose the most fabulous character in English literature, who would it be?

Quote from The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad

3 We read to know we're not alone.

Quote from Shadowlands

4 I realize, I say I realize, boy, you ain't just crazy about having to sit there reading that old book like a sissy, are you?

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

5 I'm not going to have to read a book. A Tale of Two Cities was just on TV. I watched the movie, so now I won't have to read the book. The only thing I didn't understand were the parts about shampoo, soap, and coffee. -Those were the commercials, sir.

Phillip Lucier as Peppermint Patty in It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown

6 Most of these books are stolen. Why not? They're written to be read. At least I read them, which is more than most people do.

Quote from Shadowlands

7 It's impossible. That's not even half finished. -Of course not. This is my library of unwritten books.

Harry Morgan as Carolinus; John Ritter as Peter Dickinson in The Flight of Dragons (1982)

8 I've just had my whole vacation ruined. We're supposed to read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. and then write a book report about it.

Chad Allen as Charlie Brown in Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!

9 What is this trash you're reading? -It's not trash, Daddy, it's lovely. It's called Moby _, by Herman Melville. -Moby what?

Danny DeVito as Harry Wormwood; Mara Wilson as Matilda Wormwood in Matilda (1996)

10 If you wanna know who's reading Purgatory and Paradise Lost and Helter Skelter, the FBI's computers will tell us. It could give us a name. -It could.

Morgan Freeman as William Somerset in Se7en (1995)