Hook ‘Em: 30 great opening lines

Erin

The Daily Telegraph’s list of great first lines… Did your favorite book make it?

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

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

 

2 thoughts on “Hook ‘Em: 30 great opening lines”

  1. Daisy Banks's avatar Daisy Banks September 15, 2014 / 11:45 am

    I like this opener very much as it always makes me smile.

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  2. Ellen Morris Prewitt's avatar Ellen Morris Prewitt September 22, 2014 / 9:16 am

    Confederacy of Dunces made it!

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