“If there's one thing I've learned, it's learning things never taught me nothin'. And books is the worst.”
Madeline Kahn - Betty

“I'm writing a novel myself. I'd be very disappointed if you gentlemen don't burn it.”

George Macready - Schoolteacher

“I never make up anything. I get everything from my books. They're all true.”
Edna May Wonacott - Ann Newton

“- Mayor Henry Manville: These books must be burned, Professor Sorel.
- Professor Sorel: By your order, Mr. Mayor? Or by order of the enemy?
- Mayor Henry Manville: Voltaire. Plato. The Republic. My dear friend, we have to be careful about that word: Republic.”
Thurston Hall - Mayor Henry Manville
Philip Merivale - Professor Sorel

“A book is a lovely thing, a garden stocked with beautiful flowers, a magic carpet on which to fly away to unknown climes.”
Sydney Greenstreet - Mr. Peters