Opening Words of Famous Books

1. "They call me Ishmael"

2. 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen'

3. 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife'

4. 'You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy'

5. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

6. "I'm pretty much f*cked

7. The past is a foreign country' they do things differently there.

8. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity.

9. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me.

10. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

11. The year 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.

12. Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

13. Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield.

14. The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.

15. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.