Could you tell me some/your favorite famous quotes from classic books?
Posted by admin on Dec 14, 2008 in Books Authors |
Gypsophila asked:
Which books are the quotes from and who is the author?
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Which books are the quotes from and who is the author?
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Where art thou?
mother died today. or perhaps it was yesterday.
the stranger, albert camus
Death is too good for them, they must suffer as I suffered. See their world ripped from them as it was ripped from me. from ‘Count of Monte Cristo’ by Alexandre Dumas
and
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
from ‘Hamlet’ by Shakespeare
From the Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams:
What is REAL? ……
Real isn’t how you are made, said the Skin Horse. It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.
Does it hurt? asked the Rabbit.
Sometimes, said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.
Does it happen all at once, like being wound up, he asked, or bit by bit?
It doesn’t happen all at once, said the Skin Horse. You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.
To be or not to befrom hamlet by william shakespeare.
Well, if anythings worth doing, it’s worth doing right.
-Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
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’s Pride Prejudice
Reader, I married him ~ Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction ~ Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (technically this is an essay, isn’t it? Oh well, it’s classic!)
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee!
Ernest Hemingway
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
Charles Dickens
Tom Jones you are a scoundrel!
Henry Fielding
ADRIAN!!!!
I think Rocky was a book first…..
There’s just one kind of folks. Folks. Scout from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
And truer words were never spoken….
Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
-Calvin (and Hobbes)
I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. - Catherine Earnshaw
Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you — haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe — I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! -Heathcliff
I sought, and soon discovered, the three head-stones on the slope next the moor — the middle one, gray, and half buried in heath — Edgar Linton’s only harmonized by the turf and moss, creeping up its foot — Heathcliff’s still bare. I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.- Mr. Lockwood
All quotes from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus
Not in entire forgetfulness
Nor in utter nakedness,
But training clouds of glory do we come,
From God who is our home:
William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality.
beware the ides of march
the evil that men do lives on, the good is oft intered with the bones Julious Caesar
William Shakespare
Frankly Scarlett I don’t give a damn. Gone with the wind
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
‘It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Poetry, she thought, wasn’t written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding. - Nicholas Sparks, ‘The Notebook’
In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed streets of life. - Nicholas Sparks, ‘The Notebook’
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again from Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Curiouser and curiouser, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Oh, what fools these mortals be, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare