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The best, most quotable and most famous opening lines from over five hundred years of literature.

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1984 Opening Lines T-Shirt. The classic opening lines to George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four: It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. In which Winston Smith questions the totalitarian system in which he lives. Big Brother is watching you.

1984 Opening Lines T-Shirt

Brave New World Opening Lines T-Shirt. The opening lines for Aldoux Huxley's dystopian vision of the future: A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and in a shield, the World State's motto, Community, Identity, Stability.

Brave New World Opening Lines T-Shirt

Crime and Punishment Opening Lines T-Shirt. Taken from Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 Nihilist literary classic: On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

Crime and Punishment Opening Lines T-Shirt

Don Quixote Opening Lines T-Shirt. The opening to Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote; the 17th Century novel that many feel marked the beginning of modern literature: At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember, there lived a little while ago one of those gentlemen who are wont to keep a lance in the rack, an old buckler, a lean horse and a swift greyhound.

Don Quixote Opening Lines T-Shirt

Jane Austen's Persuasion Opening Lines T-Shirt. The opening lines of Jane Austen's last published novel: Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Sommersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt, as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century - and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest that never failed - this was the page at which the favourite volume always opened:
ELLIOT OF KELLYNCH HALL
Walter Elliot, born March 1, 1760, married, July 15, 1784, Elizabeth, daughter of James Stevenson, Esq. of South Park, in the county of Gloucester; by which lady (who died 1800) he has issue Elizabeth, born June 1, 1785; Anne, born August 9, 1787; a stillborn son, Nov. 5, 1789; Mary, born Nov. 20, 1791.

Jane Austen's Persuasion Opening Lines T-Shirt

Robinson Crusoe Opening Lines T-Shirt. The opening lines of Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel detailing the adventures of the famous shipwrecked sailor: I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznear; but by the usual corruption of words in England we are now called, nay, we call ourselves, and write our name, Crusoe, and so my companions always called me.

Robinson Crusoe Opening Lines T-Shirt

The Catcher In The Rye Opening Lines T-Shirt. The opening lines from JD Salinger's original ode to teen angst: 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, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

The Catcher In The Rye Opening Lines T-Shirt

The Trial Opening Lines T-Shirt. The Trial by Franz Kafka is one of the greatest pieces of dystopian literature. The protagonist, known only as Josef K., awakes to find himself trapped in a nightmare. He is arrested, but is unable to establish what he is accused of having done, or how he can go about proving his innocence. The famous opening line of the novel Someone must have made a false accusation against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong is used on this design along with an image of Kafka's Man at Table sketch.

The Trial Opening Lines T-Shirt

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