I've loved reading for as long as I can remember. I'm no Rory Gilmore, but I can only imagine stacking up the hundreds of books I've read over the years. As I became a more mature reader I began developing an interest in classics, but my appreciation for classical literature really blossomed in high school. I know many people cringe when they think about the "lame" books they read for class, but analyzing the deeper meaning of the text and understanding the historical context of works of literature really grew my passion. So for people that doubt classics or even people that absolutely love classics, I present you with 29 literary quotes to capture your heart.

1. "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." - André Gide, Autumn Leaves

2. "Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

3. "Most people are nice when you finally see them." - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

4. "When you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while." - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

5. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

6. "Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

7. "To define is to limit." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

8. "Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for." - Joseph Heller, Catch-22

9. "It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials" John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

10. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

11. "It is never too late to be wise." - Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

12. “It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love” - Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

13. “Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned

14. "I am rooted but I flow." - Virginia Woolf, The Waves

15. “I was quiet, but I was not blind.” - Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

16. "With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy? - Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

17. "We are all broken, that's how the light gets in." - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

18. "You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope... I have loved none but you." - Jane Austen, Persuasion

19. “I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on Earth." - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

20. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” - Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

21. “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

22. “It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

23. “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

24. "She was the captain of her soul." - William Faulkner, Light in August

25. “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

26. “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.” - Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

27. “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?” - Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

28, “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

29. “Resist much, obey little.” - Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass