Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Diary of Anne Frank (play).
Isolation Quotes
MR. FRANK: To be perfectly safe, from eight in the morning until six in the evening we must move only when necessary and then in stockinged feet. We must not speak above a whisper. We must not run...
Fear Quotes
MRS. VAN DAAN: Something's happened to them. (1.2)
Faith Quotes
MRS. VAN DAAN: What kind of a Jew are you that you don't know Hanukah? (1.5)
Perseverance Quotes
MR. FRANK: No trash must ever be thrown out which might reveal that someone is living here… not even a potato paring. We must burn everything in the stove at night. This is the way we must live u...
Love Quotes
MIEP: Don't stay up here, Mr. Frank. What's the use of torturing yourself like this? (1.1)
Morality Quotes
MIEP: Burn this? (She hands him a worn, velour covered book.) (1.1)
Goodness Quotes
All enmities are forgotten in the exhilaration of the wonderful news. (2.3)
Warfare Quotes
ANNE'S VOICE: Then things got very bad for the Jews. (1.1)
Youth Quotes
ANNE'S VOICE: But somehow we children still managed to have fun. (1.1)