- Heather: It's just like Hamlet said, "to thine own self be true".
- Cher: Hamlet didn't say that.
- Heather: I think I remember Hamlet accurately.
- Cher: Well, I remember Mel Gibson accurately, and he didn't say that. That Polonius guy did.
Susan Mohun - Heather
Alicia Silverstone - Cher

- Chaz: Hi, what're you reading?
- Nan: Milton's "Paradise Lost", for Professor Russo's course in English epic. You know, it's a shame; it's a dying form.
- Chaz: Dying...
- Nan: Not too many people read it nowadays, even in college.
Clayton Rohner - Chaz
Leah Pinsent - Nan

In the novel you are supposed to read by monday "The Sorrows of Young Werther" Goethe through his art reveals not only the ecstasy of romantic love but also the doomed consequences that necessarily follow.
James Toback - Leo Boscovitch

“- Lt. Frankie Reno: Why are you teaching the dogs Shakespeare?
- Colonel Kane: Someone's got to do it.”
Jason Miller - Lt. Frankie Reno
Stacy Keach - Col. Vincent Kane

“- Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.
- Scripps: No.
- Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.”
Dominic Cooper - Dankin
Jamie Parker - Scripps